Grade 6 · Statistics and Probability

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.A.3

Recognize that a measure of center for a numerical data set summarizes all of its values with a single number, while a measure of variation describes how its values vary with a single number.

Read this standard on the official Common Core site

Lessons that teach this standard

• Mean, Median and Mode: The Three Averages

  How to find the mean, median and mode of a data set, what each one measures, and how to choose between them when an outlier pulls the mean away from the middle.