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• Averages Video Revise how to calculate the mean, median, mode and range from lists and frequency tables.
• Averages Test your understanding of averages with this self marking quiz about mean, median and range.
• Choose Your Average This is a game for two players. You should know how to find the mean, median and range of a set of numbers.
• StatGrid Challenge Arrange the numbers one to nine in a three by three grid to obtain the given means, medians and ranges.

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• "There is a total of 60 students in the school orchestra." ... more
• "A basket contains apples and oranges. The mean weight of the 9 apples in the basket is 265g. The mean weight of all 21 items of fruit in the basket is 290g." ... more

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• Averages "Average" is a very general term that is used commonly in everyday English and most people have an idea what it means. Mathematicians like to be a little more precise however and have come up with a number of different ways of finding a measure of central tendency. Pupils at school should develop their understanding of averages so that they can more precisely communicate information to others and are not misled by statistics presented in a way to distort the facts. Pupils should understand and use the mean of discrete data. They should be able to compare two simple distributions using the range and one of the mode, median or mean. See also the topics called Data Handling and Statistics.