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Measures of Centre and Spread: Measures of Spread

In this activity, students are introduced to the bee academy. A small set of data is provided and members of the bee academy explain how to find the range, the interquartile range, the mean deviation from the mean, the mean squared deviation from the mean, the sample variance and the standard deviation.

This resource is part of the Making Stats Vital collection from Jonny Griffiths.

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