Maddie Smith

We're going to do the Candy Crush Data Challenge.

When we did our first project, we had to relate something in the real world to some of the stuff that we were learning in math.

So I just did it based off of like

In Sean Donovan's career math class, high school students in Brewer, Maine, are using Skittles to get the mean, median, and mode of the color distribution across each pack.

Donovan says these skills are necessary for things like election polling, medical sampling, and more.

Senior Andre Lutz appreciates learning about math's real-world relevance.

He wants to study criminal justice.

As for the color distribution of Skittles, turns out it's pretty random.

A lesson that also applies to the real world.

For NPR News, I'm Maddie Smith in Brewer, Maine.