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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html data-require="math graphie interactive mean-and-median">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Exploring mean and median</title>
<script src="../khan-exercise.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="exercise">
<div class="vars">
<var id="LOWER_BOUND">-7</var>
<var id="UPPER_BOUND">-1 * LOWER_BOUND</var>
<!--
80% chance of getting 10 points to work with; otherwise 5. Any
other reasonable quantity leads to really messy means. This at
least covers both cases: where the median is a point, and
where the median is between two points. Weighted towards more
problems with 10 points to make it easier to get the intuition
how/why the mean and median can vary.
-->
<var id="POINTS">random() < 0.8 ? 10 : 5</var>
<var id="MEDIAN">
roundTo(1, randRangeNonZero((LOWER_BOUND + 1) * 2,
(UPPER_BOUND - 1) * 2) / 2)
</var>
<var id="MIN_MEAN">
((POINTS / 2) * (MEDIAN + 0.5) + MEDIAN - 0.5 +
(POINTS / 2 - 1) * LOWER_BOUND) / POINTS
</var>
<var id="MAX_MEAN">
((POINTS / 2) * (MEDIAN - 0.5) + MEDIAN + 0.5 +
(POINTS / 2 - 1) * UPPER_BOUND) / POINTS
</var>
<var id="MEAN">
roundTo(1, randRangeNonZero(MIN_MEAN * 10, MAX_MEAN * 10) / 10)
</var>
</div>
<div class="problems">
<div>
<div class="question">
<p>Arrange the <var>POINTS</var> orange points on the
number line so the <span class="hint_blue">arithmetic mean
is <code><var>MEAN</var></code></span><br /> and the
<span class="hint_green">median is
<code><var>MEDIAN</var></code></span>.
The distance between adjacent tick marks is 1.</p>
<div class="graphie" id="number-line">
graph.targetMedian = MEDIAN;
graph.targetMean = MEAN;
graph.numPoints = POINTS;
init({
range: [
[LOWER_BOUND - 0.3, UPPER_BOUND + 0.2],
[-3, 3]],
scale: 35
});
style({ stroke: "#bbb" });
line([LOWER_BOUND, 0], [UPPER_BOUND, 0]);
for (var x = LOWER_BOUND; x <= UPPER_BOUND; x++) {
line([x, -0.2], [x, 0.2]);
}
style({ strokeWidth: 3.5 });
line([0, -0.2], [0, 0.2]);
label([0, -0.53], "0", "center", {});
style({
strokeWidth: 2,
stroke: BLUE,
fill: BLUE,
opacity: 1.0
});
graph.meanArrow = path([
[0, 0.7], [0.05, 0.7], [0, 0.6],
[-0.05, 0.7], [0, 0.7], [0, 1.0]
]);
graph.meanLabel = label([0, 1.3], "\\text{mean}",
"above", { color: BLUE });
graph.meanValueLabel = label([0, 0.8], "0",
"above", { color: BLUE });
style({ strokeWidth: 2, stroke: GREEN, fill: GREEN });
graph.medianArrow = path([
[0, -1.1], [0.05, -1.1], [0, -1],
[-0.05, -1.1], [0, -1.1], [0, -1.4]
]);
graph.medianLabel = label([0, -1.7], "\\text{median}",
"below", { color: GREEN });
graph.medianValueLabel = label([0, -1.2], "0",
"below", { color: GREEN });
addMouseLayer();
graph.points = [];
for (var x = 0; x < POINTS; x++) {
graph.points[x] = addMovablePoint({
coord: [x - POINTS / 2 + 0.5, 0],
constraints: { constrainY: true },
snapX: 0.5
});
}
graph.median = 0;
graph.mean = 0;
graph.moved = false;
$.each(graph.points, function(idx, point) {
this.onMove = function(x, y) {
graph.moved = true;
return onMovePoint(point, x, y,
updateMeanAndMedian);
};
});
</div>
</div>
<div class="solution" data-type="custom">
<div class="instruction">
Move the orange dots to select your answer.
</div>
<div class="guess">$.map(graph.points, function(el) {
return el.coord[0];
})</div>
<div class="validator-function">
if (roundTo(1, mean(guess)) === MEAN &&
roundTo(1, median(guess)) === MEDIAN) {
return true;
} else if (graph.moved) {
return false;
} else {
return "";
}
</div>
<div class="show-guess">
$.each(guess, function(i, x) {
onMovePoint(graph.points[i], x, 0);
});
updateMeanAndMedian();
</div>
<div class="example">
any arrangement of the orange dots so that the mean
and median are correct
</div>
</div>
<div class="hints">
<p>
The median is the middle number. In other words there
are always as many points to the right of the median
as to the left.
</p>
<p>
Try dragging the points so that half of them are to
the left of <span class="hint_green">
<code><var>MEDIAN</var></code></span> and half of them
are to the right of <span class="hint_green">
<code><var>MEDIAN</var></code></span>.
<span data-if="POINTS % 2 === 0">
The two points in the middle should be the same
distance from <span class="hint_green">
<code><var>MEDIAN</var></code></span>.
</span>
<span data-else>
The middle point should be at
<span class="hint_green">
<code><var>MEDIAN</var></code></span>.
</span><br />
<input type="button" value="Show me an example"
onClick="javascript:
KhanUtil.showMedianExample();
">
</p>
<p>
As long as there are as many points to the left and to
the right of the median, the median will stay the same.
But the arithmetic mean is calculated using the value
of every point. Try moving the points on either side
of the median closer and further from the median to
see how the mean is affected.
</p>
<p>
There are a number of different ways to arrange the
points so the mean is <span class="hint_blue">
<code><var>MEAN</var></code></span> and the median is
<span class="hint_green">
<code><var>MEDIAN</var></code></span>.
<input type="button" value="Show me an example"
onClick="javascript:
KhanUtil.showMeanExample();
">
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>