Having Fun with Median!

On Friday the 2nd graders learned about how to find the median in a set of numbers.  This concept is so fun because we can do a variety of things to collect numbers!  What we did is a beanbag toss.  The students were placed into a few small groups.  Each student tossed 10 beanbags into a crate, we recorded the number made into the crate, and found the the median for each small group.  We discussed that our purpose was just to collect numbers; it doesn't matter if you get all 10 in the crate or none in the crate!  A variety of numbers will be great to work with!  The students learned the steps of putting the collected numbers in order from least to greatest and then work to find the middle number.  They had a blast!