Grade 6 Measures of Center Worksheet

A worksheet for 6th graders to practice calculating and understanding mean, median, mode, and range.

Grade 6 Math Probability and StatisticsMeasures of Center

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CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.A.3CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.B.5.C

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Measures of Center: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range

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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Show all your work where applicable.

1. What is the mean of a data set?

2. How do you find the median of a data set?

3. Explain what the mode of a data set represents.

For the data set: 5, 8, 12, 5, 10

4. The mean is .

5. The median is .

6. The mode is .

7. The range is .

8. Which measure of center is best to use when there are outliers in the data?

Mean

Median

Mode

Range

9. What is the mode of the data set: 15, 10, 20, 10, 25, 15, 10?

The following bar graph shows the number of books read by 5 students in a month.

10. What is the mean number of books read by the students?

11. What is the median number of books read by the students?

12. What is the mode of the number of books read?

13. The median is always one of the numbers in the data set.

True

False

14. The range describes the spread of the data.

True

False