Game: Learner

I explored one of the Kinect Lessons for the classroom and found it to be way more fun than just being given a data set and told to find the mean, median, and mode of the data set. Using Kinect Adventures two of my friends and I played various games on the Kinect and recorded our scores. Then once we had collected all of our data by playing the game we went through and calculated the mean, median, and mode of the scores for each individual game and for the overall game.

Sam W.:
Sure Shot - 165
Curvy Creek - 152
Go with the Flow - 113
Ship Shapes - 152
Blast Off - 117

Don:

Sure Shot - 159

Curvy Creek - 155

Go with the Flow - 109

Ship Shapes - 129

Blast Off - 202

Sam M.

Sure Shot - 168

Curvy Creek - 81

Go with the Flow - 140

Ship Shapes - 168

Blast Off - 195

The scores are recorded above. Then as a group we went through and calculated the mean, median, and mode for each game:

Sure Shot - 164, 165, NA

Curvy Creek - 129.3, 152, NA

Go with the Flow - 120.7, 113, NA

Ship Shapes - 149.7, 152, NA

Blast Off-171.3, 195, NA

Then using all fifteen scores we calculated the mean, median, and mode for Kinect Adventures:

Mean - 147

Median - 152

Mode - 152,168

This method of authentically collecting data is extremely different from just being given a data set. Students are able to get up out of the desks and interact with the numbers because they are creating the numbers themselves. It gets the blood pumping and makes thing way more fun! Students can also make connections to what the mean median and mode actually mean and represent when they are interacting with them on a more personal level. I loved this activity and would highly recommend it for any classroom studying mean, median, and mode!