M&M’s
How much do you know about one of
America’s favorite candies?
Record Your Answers
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What year were M&M’s introduced?
What company is the manufacturer?
What were the original colors?
What are the current colors?
What is the famous advertising slogan for
M&M’s?
• What are some of the variations now?
Color History
Melt in your mouth, not in your hand…
How many M&M’s in a fun size bag?
• Make a guess and record.
• Open your bag and count the total number of
M&M’s – no eating yet!
• Sort the candies by color and record the
number for each color.
• Using the graph paper, make a histogram for
your bag by color.
Measures of Central Tendency
• This knowledge is needed for Math, Social
Studies, and Science tests.
• Candidates must define and answer questions
about mode, median, mean (average), and
range – from statistics.
• Questions will relate to data which can be
described in a narrative, shown on a chart or
table, or displayed in a numerical sequence.
Mode
• Mode is the most commonly occurring
number in the distribution.
• It is the number you have the MOST of.
• Mode is a term used in the fashion industry in
words such as “de mode, outmoded, in the
mode.”
• There can be more than one mode if two or
more amounts are the same.
Median
• Median is the number right in the center of
the distribution when it is put in order.
• Order the numbers from least to greatest.
Find the number exactly in the middle. That is
the median. Think of the median strip that
divides a highway.
• If there are an even number of terms, find the
mean of the two in the middle. Median and
mean are on the GED formula page.
Range
• The range of a data set is the difference
between the lowest and highest numbers in
the in distribution.
• Subtract the lowest number from the highest
number to find the range.
• Think of the range on a ranch which is also
called a “spread” to remember that range is
the distance spanned by the data.
Mean (Average)
• The mean is the arithmetic average of the
data.
• Add all the data together.
• Divide the total by the number of items in the
distribution.
• On the GED test you will probably use a
calculator to compute the mean.
References
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mms.com
mymms.com
Purplemath.com
MathHelp.com