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Math Basics General About 8 minutes

Statistics and Data: Basics

    What data is

    Data is a set of numbers that answer a question.

    Data: a set of numbers that answer a question. Value: 1 number in the data.

    Watch the towers sort and share

    Median: the middle value in order. Mode: the value that occurs most often. Range: the greatest value minus the least value. Mean: the value of each tower when you share the cubes equally.

    Try it

    Make the towers equal

    1. Click a tower button to take the top cube.
    2. Click a different tower button to put the cube on that tower.
    3. Move cubes until all 5 towers are the same height.
    4. Read the mean. Click "New towers" to play again.

    Quick check

    Answer 5 questions. You see your score at the end.

    This tutorial uses the standard 6th-grade curriculum for this topic.