Basketball Statistics

Reinforce introductory statistics with this interactive basketball activity. Students go in the gymnasium or outside and take 10 free-throw shots. The results of this activity are depicted in a frequency table. Then students are responsible for calculating the mean, median, mode and range of the set of frequency numbers. Additionally, students are challenged to use the information to create a dot plot and/or bar graph. Finally, there are 10 questions where students need to not only interpret results but also make inferences about the results. Great fun to be outdoors AND learning! Enjoy!