Averages: Mode & Median
Two ways to describe what is typical in a set of data.
What this lesson covers
Averages: Mode & Median is a 9-part Class 5 Mathematics lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.
How it begins
An average is a single number that describes what is typical in a set of data. There is more than one kind, and they answer slightly different questions.
The 9 parts
- What an average is for
- The mode
- The median
- An even number of values
- Which one to use
- The range
- Where marks go
- What to remember
- Watch one worked through
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