I want to point out that I think I got that mean medium whatever question wrong because I never took that in any math class in my life. I'll be emailing you for homework help when my daughter is in grade 8. Don't think I'm kidding.
The "median" is the strip of land in the middle of a highway, with half of the highway on each side. It is also the number in the middle of a dataset, with half of the numbers greater and half less.
"Mode" is a word used in asking for a scoop of ice cream on your pie. Also, if you took the numbers in a data set and piled all the occurences of like numbers together, the "mode" is the number whose pile would stick up the highest, like a scoop of ice cream on pie a la mode.
"Mean" is what your students will call you if you make them do the hardest one of these, in which you add up all the numbers and divide by how many numbers there are.
If the average person says "average," what they mean is the "mean."
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The "median" is the strip of land in the middle of a highway, with half of the highway on each side. It is also the number in the middle of a dataset, with half of the numbers greater and half less.
"Mode" is a word used in asking for a scoop of ice cream on your pie. Also, if you took the numbers in a data set and piled all the occurences of like numbers together, the "mode" is the number whose pile would stick up the highest, like a scoop of ice cream on pie a la mode.
"Mean" is what your students will call you if you make them do the hardest one of these, in which you add up all the numbers and divide by how many numbers there are.
If the average person says "average," what they mean is the "mean."
Got that? :-D
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