Easter Egg Mean, Median & Mode

This is such a fun activity! And now that the Easter decorations are popping up in the stores, this is a perfect time to prepare it for your class to do soon.

Mean, Median, Mode and Range Easter Activity - FREE on TpT

There are a few ways you can vary the difficulty of this math work.

In my notes from April 2017, I wrote "You can easily individualize it by giving each child 30 eggs and 30 slips of paper and letting the kids choose what numbers they want to put in their eggs. Make sure they remember to repeat some numbers or there won't be a mode."

One of the advantages of having children write their own math problems is that it is valuable assessment. I know a child is only comfortable with numbers up to 20 if in their math problems, they only use numbers up to 20. (It is also a wonderful way to know what operations they are comfortable with. Many children will stick only to addition if given their druthers.)

You can also make sets using plastic Easter Eggs of various sizes! In the things we received from Bill Perk's estate, I found these bags of three different sizes of Easter eggs. I'm not sure what lesson he was thinking of when he purchased them, but to me this is a great way to differentiate this activity. You could make three levels -- beginner, intermediate, advanced -- and have the children who are doing the higher levels work with more numbers or more difficult numbers, or both!

beginner level - 6 eggs

intermediate level - 12 eggs

advanced level - 24 eggs

In the Waldorf Scope & Sequence, finding mean, median, and mode would come in 6th grade Business Math. It requires you to be able to do long division and to work with decimals, both of which are introduced in grade 5.