TeacherStep Class Activity:
“How old is the oldest person you know?”
This activity is designed for classrooms that teach probability and statistics as part of their content. It can be easily adapted to classrooms for Grades 6, 7, 8, Algebra II and includes content topics (1) data collection; (2) finding mean, median, mode; (3) displaying data; (4) reasoning with data; (5) communicating mathematically; and (6) inference on populations.