Common Core · Grade 6
6.SP.B.5
Grade 6 — Summarise numerical data sets in relation to their context, reporting measures of centre and describing the shape of the distribution.
Grade 6 — Summarise numerical data sets, giving quantitative measures of centre and of variability, including the interquartile range.
The 2 skills that cover it
- Mean, Median & ModeSummarise a data set with a single number, and choose the summary that tells the truth about the data you actually have.Read the lesson →
- Range & SpreadMeasure how spread out a data set is with the range, the quartiles and the interquartile range, and use the spread to spot outliers.Read the lesson →
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.
- Compute the range of a data set.
- Find the lower and upper quartiles of an ordered data set.
- Compute the interquartile range and say what it measures that the range does not.
- Test a value for outlier status with the 1.5 x IQR rule.