Topic: Data Literacy D1.5 – Finding the Mode

Ontario Curriculum Expectation:

4.D1.5 determine the mean and the median and identify the mode(s), if any, for various data sets involving whole numbers, and explain what each of these measures indicates about the data.

Mode

The mode is the value that appears the most often in a data set.

Example:

1,  6,  4,  8,  6,  7,  6

Step 1 – Find the number that appears the most often: 6

The mode is 6.