Question

Mean, median, mode, and range of a group of numbers.

Pretend you are a teacher trying to describe these terms to a student. Make sure you write as if you are the teacher and explain each term as if the student is learning this for the first time. Be descriptive and give examples. Make sure you include the data set (the group of numbers) you will be working with. Be sure to use complete sentences. Be creative and use your own words!

Answer 1

Mean, median, and mode are different measures of center in a numerical data set. They each try to summarize a dataset with a single number to represent a "typical" data point from the dataset.
Mean: The "average" number; found by adding all data points and dividing by the number of data points.

Median: The middle number; found by ordering all data points and picking out the one in the middle (or if there are two middle numbers, taking the mean of those two numbers).

Mode: The most frequent number—that is, the number that occurs the highest number of times.