Statistics & Data

Subject: Math  ·  Grade level: 6th

Summarize, display, and reason about numbers. Data is everywhere — test scores, weather, sports stats. Statistics gives you tools to make sense of it without

In this lesson

• Measures of center
• Reading data displays

Key terms

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers.

Median

The middle value of a sorted list.

Mode

The value that appears most often.

Range

The difference between the largest and smallest values.

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