Mean, Median & Mode

Free interactive math game: Mean, Median & Mode — Which is which?. Part of the Statistics category on MathKite.

Example problems

Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.

  1. Numbers: 2, 1, 4, 10, 1 Find the median (middle value):
  2. Numbers: 3, 1, 4, 9, 9, 9, 2 Find the mode (most frequent):
  3. Numbers: 12, 20, 7, 19, 9 Find the median (middle value):
  4. Numbers: 3, 3, 8, 7, 4, 3, 10 Find the mode (most frequent):

About this exercise

Questions that could ask for the mean, median, mode or range.

How to solve it

Read which measure is wanted, then apply its own method. Sorting the data first helps for most of them.

Worked example

The median of 5, 1, 9 is 5 once the values are in order.

Common mistake

Calculating the mean out of habit. The word in the question decides which measure is needed.