Show Me The Money!!

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If you could choose professional a professional sport to play, which sport would you choose?  This activity is designed to show students how much the average annual salary is for 4 professional organizations over the past 25 years.  Students will look at the average salaries and make their arguments for the “most lucrative” sport.  Students will look for trends and try to predict what they think salaries might look like in 10 years.  This lesson will cover CCSS 6.SP.B.5. because students will use the statistics to make decisions about which sport they choose.  Students will be able to use these statistics to demonstrate central measures of tendency( Mean, Median, Mode) and use the statistics to support what sport they choose.  There will be a discussion about the length of each season and how many contests are in a season and determine how much each athletes make per contest and how that may change their decision.  As an additional extension, we will include women professional athlete salaries and compare and contrast those salaries with men.

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