Common Core · Grade 6
6.SP.A.3
Grade 6 — Recognise that a measure of centre summarises all of the values with a single number, while a measure of variation describes how the values vary.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- Compute the mean of a small data set.
- Find the median of a data set with an odd or an even number of values.
- Identify the mode, including when there is more than one or none at all.
- Say which average describes a data set best when an outlier is present.