Lesson: The Median of a Data Set Mathematics • 6th Grade

Students will be able to

• recognize that the median is one of the measures of central tendency,
• understand that the data must be ordered to calculate the median,
• calculate the median of a data set with an odd number of values,
• calculate the median of a data set with an even number of values, recognizing that it is calculated by finding the mean of the middle two values,
• calculate the median of data given in a table or a bar graph,
• find an unknown value in a data set if given the value of its median.