Mean, Median or Mode?

What is another word for average?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Monster

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What is the median of a set of data?

• It is the holiday that the data takes to the Mediterranean.

• It is the average of the data set.

• It is the most frequently occurring result/s.

• It is the middle number.

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What is the mode of a set of data?

• It's the most modern number in the set.

• It is the most fashionable score in the set of data.

• It is the least occurring result in the data set.

• It is the most frequent data score.

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

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Before you determine the median, what should you do?

• Panic!

• Place the data in ascending order.

• Throw the data out the window and pretend it never existed.

• Find the average.

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From the data given, what is the mode?

1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

• 1

• 3

• 7

• 5

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From the data given, what is the median?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

• 1

• 5

• 6

• 5.5

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

What is the mean of the following set of data?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• 3

• 1

• 2

• 5

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From the previous data set, what is special about the value 3?

1, 2, 3, 4 5

• It is the n value.

• It is the n + 1 value.

• It is also the median.

• It's the number after two.

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Is it possible to determine the median, from data that is not sorted?

• No!

• Yes, all the time!

• It is possible but very unlikely.

• What's the median?

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How can you organise primary numerical data?

• Put the data in ascending order.

• Put the data in a filing cabinet.

• Use a Frequency Distribution (frequency table).

• Place it in alphabetical data.

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