Grade 6 · Statistics and Probability

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.B.5c

Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered.

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.

• Range, Interquartile Range and Mean Absolute Deviation

  How to measure how spread out a data set is using range, interquartile range and mean absolute deviation, and why two sets with the same mean can be nothing alike.