Create Your Dream Team: Sports Statistics
This interactive worksheet, "Create Your Dream Team: Sports Statistics," allows students to apply their knowledge of mean, median, mode, and range in a real-world sports context. Students analyze performance data from 8 diverse players—each with stats from 8 recent games—and calculate key statistical measures. Using their analysis, they select the top 3 players for their dream team and justify their choices based on performance consistency and potential.
Key Features:
- Real-world application of central tendency and variability
- Engaging sports-themed data presentation
- Encourages critical thinking and comparison
- Integrated player profiles: age, position, running speed, and game stats
- Perfect for 7th-grade math classrooms aligned with statistics standards
- Auto-graded with instant feedback
This is a great classroom or homework activity that blends math, sports, and strategic thinking to make statistics meaningful and fun!
Learning Objective
Students will apply statistical measures—mean, median, mode, and range—to analyze real-world data and make data-driven decisions. By interpreting player performance stats, students will develop skills in comparing and evaluating numerical data to justify logical selections based on statistical reasoning.
This activity also builds critical thinking, reinforces understanding of measures of center and variability, and promotes real-life application of math in sports analytics.
Randomization Available
If randomization is enabled, each student will see a different set of game scores for the players. This means the mean, median, mode, and range—and therefore the best player choices—will vary for each student, ensuring personalized analysis and preventing copying.
💡 Tip: When assigning this activity to your classroom, you can optionally enable randomization to give each student a unique version of the problems. When you re-assign the same worksheet, each student will get a new set of questions, helping them master the content through repeated practice.
