Mean or Median: Which Shows a Typical Value?
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Mean or Median: Which Shows a Typical Value?
Mean or median worksheet: four data sets, two with an outlier. Find the mean and the median of each, then choose the one that shows a typical value better. Grade 6, with an answer key.
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Find the mean, median, mode and range of a data set, the quartiles and interquartile range, and the mean absolute deviation, and read and make dot plots, histograms and box plots.
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How to use this sheet
- Have the child put the data in order from least to greatest first, for every question.
- Write each measure with its label, so mean, median and mode are not mixed up.
- Ask which measure best describes the data, and why, when there is an outlier.
Common mistakes
- Finding the median without putting the data in order first.
- For an even number of values, choosing one of the two middle values instead of the mean of both.
- Mixing up the mean and the median.
- Thinking the mode is the biggest value. It is the value that appears most often.
