Real-Life Statistics Project

Students must think of a survey question that can be answered numerically. Then, they must go out into their community or school and ask at least 15 people their question. After collecting their data, they must find the minimum, maximum, range, mean, median, and mode. Also, they must graph their results, and answer a few reflection questions about their data.

I have my kids put all of this information on a poster or make a powerpoint presentation to show the class. I find this activity really makes the concepts of mean, median, mode, minimum, maximum, and range more realistic for the students and thus easier to understand.

I attached a sample project a student completed for me. Not necessarily the best example, but gives you at least something to know what a final project could look like.

Included in the downloaded file is the overview sheet I give to students and a rubric to grade them with.