Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Human Space Exploration, Mathematics, Present and Future
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
This standards-aligned exercise helps students learn about space radiation and solar activity data.
With this exercise, students will:
- Find the median of a solar activity data set.
- Use the median to determine the first and third quartile of the solar activity data set.
- Calculate the interquartile range of the solar activity data.
Common Core: 6.SP.B.5.B, 6.SP.B.5.C
Launch Into Math – Exercise 3: Medians and Interquartile Ranges
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