Created by:  Ann Griffith, Diane Shedden-Wolf, Mary Sandor, and Nichole Bradley

The objectives of the Treasure Hunt are:

       Define mean, median, and mode.

       Calculate the mean, median, and mode from the data based on your group's parents' ages.

       Calculate the mean or your parents' ages using Excel.

       Using the data from the basketball exercise at http://euclid.barry.edu/~marinas/mat476/bball/kup319fr.html, create an Excel spreadsheet.

       Calculate the mean, median, and mode from the basketball exercise.

       Produce a graph in Excel from your data.

The following is a list of sites to help you 'hunt'.

 http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/discussions/MeanMedianAndMode/

http://www.purplemath.com/modules/meanmode.htm

http://www.quia.com/rr/51667.html

http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspView&ResourceID=262

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Normal/stdexcel.htm

***Groups,  you must turn in the following to be graded:

Definitions of mean, median, and mode.

Parents' ages example.

Mean, median, and mode of the basketball scores you did using the formulas.

Printed basketball spreadsheet in Excel.

Printed graph of data.