Measures of Center Vocabulary

Data landmarks are...

• famous places located around the world

• minimum, maximum, mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data

• locations on a coordinate grid

The minimum value in a data set is...

• the smallest value in a data set

• the largest value in a data set

• the number that occurs the least in a data set

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The maximum number in a data set is...

• the smallest number in a data set

• the number that occurs the most in a data set

• the largest number in a data set

The median of a data set is

• the number that occurs the most

• the average of the data set

• the middle value of a data set

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The mode of a data set is...

• the number that occurs the most

• the middle value of a data set

• the average of a data set

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

Distribution is...

• how numbers are organized on the axes of a graph

• how you find the middle value of a data set

• the arrangement and frequency of data values in a data set

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

Variability is....

• how spread out the data is

• a number that represents an unknown value

• even or equal

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CCSS.6.SP.A.1

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

To find the range of a data set you need to

• add the largest and smallest data points

• find the difference between the largest and smallest data points

• add up all the data points

• find the data value that occurred the most

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The first step in finding the median is

• order the numbers from least to greatest

• cross of the numbers until you find the middle value

• order the numbers from greatest to least

• add up all the numbers in the data set

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

Another word for mean is

• middle value

• most

• maximum

• average

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3