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

Students will be able to

• recognize that the mode is one of the measures of central tendency,
• recall that a data set can have a unique mode, more than one mode, or no mode (when no value appears more than another),
• calculate the mode of a data set,
• calculate the mode for data given in a table or a bar graph,
• calculate an unknown value in a data set given its mode.