WHAT DO THESE CRAZY WORDS MEAN?
The mean is the average of a set of numbers. You use this a lot in sports such as batting averages, bowling scores, etc. Teachers will use this a lot to find the class average of a test score. To find the mean, you simply add up all the numbers in the set and divide the total by the number of items.
The median is the middle number when you line up the set from least to greatest. Remembering that the median is in the middle of the road may help you remember what to do for this number. To find the median, simply put the numbers in the set in order from least to greatest. Then cross off the first and last number, repeating this until you get to the middle number, which is your median. If you have an even number, you will have two numbers left. In this case, you add the two numbers together and divide by two to get your median.
Mode is just the number that occurs the most times in the set. To find the mode, put the numbers in order from least to greatest, and find the number that occurs the most. You can have two modes which is called bimodal.
