Mean, Median, Range with Movies
Web Lesson
Introduction:
One afternoon Kayla and her best friend Bob were discussing great movies that they have seen. Bob mentioned that the best movie he had ever seen was "What About Bob".
Kayla said she had seen "Lord of the Rings" but had never heard of "What About Bob". Later that day, Kayla looked up both movies on the internet and showed Bob her results.
She showed him that "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings” had made over $314,776,114* million dollars while "What About Bob" had only made $63,710,000* million. Kayla said that Bob needed to find a better taste in movies.
Bob decided this weekend would be a good time for him to teach her a way she could use some of the math Mr. Schneider had taught them. "Remember at lunch when you asked when will I ever use Statistics? Go grab your calculator and meet me by the computer in the LRC!"
Essential Question:
How do you use mean, median, and range to compare the
typical gross profits of the given movie lists?
The Task:
The following is a brief outline of what you are going to do:
Make a list of the 2005 & 2006 top ten
movies
Find the measures of center for the top grossing
movies of 2005 & 2006
Make a list of your own top ten movies
Find the measures of center for your own top ten
movies
Explain differences in these three lists
Know: Statistics can be used to analyze movie data.
Understand: The mean, median, and the range.
Do: Calculate the mean, median and the range. (See worksheets)
The Process:
1. Look at the top ten movies of 2005.
Find the mean, median (measures of center) and
the range for the gross profit of each movie.
Before you record, round each dollar amount to
the nearest million. Click à
2. Look at movies.com top ten movies of 2006.
Find the mean, median (measures of center) and
the range for the gross profit of each movie.
Before
you record, round each dollar amount to the nearest million. Click
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3. You will create your own top ten movie list. This list may contain movies from any year. Look up each movie and then find the three measures of center. The next several steps are going to require researching how much a movie grossed.
The following link will take you to a movie
webpage. Click à
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B. When you have found your movie scroll down until you find a box on the left side labeled "Other info" Click on "box office & business" This will take you to the page with the financial information you are looking for. |
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C. Try researching "Shrek" to see if you understand these steps. You should figure out "Shrek" grossed about $268 million. |
4. Answer the rest of the questions for Part I
on your worksheet.
http://movies.go.com/boxoffice?cat=2007
http://movies.go.com/boxoffice?cat=2006
Worksheets: