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6th grade Mean, median, mode, range worksheet

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Mean, median, mode, range

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Noah asked ten children how many pencils are in their desks: 12, 7, 15, 9, 18, 6, 11, 14, 8, 13. One desk looked like a pencil store. What is the median?
Tala asked twelve children how many leaves they collected: 8, 11, 9, 11, 14, 11, 8, 12, 11, 9, 13, 8. One leaf was huge. What is the mode?
Zee asked fourteen children how many minutes they practiced piano: 25, 30, 20, 30, 35, 30, 25, 40, 30, 20, 45, 30, 25, 35. The metronome kept the beat. What is the mode?
Ari asked twelve children how many buttons they sewed onto a craft project: 18, 7, 12, 15, 9, 20, 11, 8, 16, 13, 10, 14. One craft project got very fancy. What is the range?
Bo asked fourteen children how many seconds they balanced on one foot: 12, 25, 18, 30, 15, 22, 9, 27, 20, 16, 11, 24, 14, 28. What is the range?
Esme asked five children how many books they borrowed. The mean number is 8. Four of them borrowed 4, 7, 9, 10 books. How many books did the fifth child borrow?
Jun asked six children how many minutes they ride the bus. The mean number is 6. Five of them ride 3, 4, 5, 7, 2 minutes. How many minutes does the sixth child ride?
Luz asked four children how many stickers they have: 2, 9, 3, 6. Stickers were flying everywhere. A new child joins with 0 stickers. What is the mean for all five children?
Milo asked five children how many books they read this month: 5, 7, 4, 8, 4. A new child joins who read 2 books. What is the mean for all six children?
Noah asked four children how many flowers are in their gardens: 4, 5, 7, 2. A new child joins who has 4 flowers. What is the mean for all five children?

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About this worksheet

Mean, median, mode and range. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

I can find the median by putting the values in order and taking the middle dot (or the number halfway between two middle dots).
I can find the mean by adding all the values and dividing by how many there are, counting every value, even 0.
I can find the mode and the range, and I can work out a missing value or a new mean.

Standard: 6.SP.A.3, 6.SP.B.5c

Words to know

mean: The balance point of the dot plot: add all the values, then divide by how many.

median: The middle dot when the values are in order.

mode: The value with the most dots.

range: Biggest value minus smallest value.

value: One number in the data set. It is one dot on the plot.

Common mistakes

Your child took the middle number of the list as it was written, without putting the numbers in order first. Try writing each number on a small slip of paper and lining the slips up from least to greatest.

Your child picked one of the two middle numbers when the list had an even number of values. With an even count, the median is halfway between the two middle numbers. Try crossing off the smallest and the biggest, again and again, until two are left.

Your child divided by the wrong number of values, for example by leaving out a value of 0 or forgetting a value that was added. Try counting the values together, one finger each, before dividing.

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Are these 6th grade math worksheets free to print?

Yes. All 6 printable versions at each level are free to print, with the answer key, and no account is needed.

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