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Measure of central tendency 1

ClassNotes Team 8 MIN READUPDATED 13 JUN 2026

Mathematics J.S.S 3 Third Term

Theme: Measurement and geometry

Sub Theme: Shapes

WEEK 4

A measure of central tendency 1

Performance Objectives

Students should be able to;

  1. Review their previous work on mean, median and mode
  2. Calculate the median of a given data
  3. Find the mode of a given data
  4. Calculate the mean of any given data.
  5. Find the range of any given data

Revision on Previous work on mean, median, and mode

Content

The mean, median and the mode are called measures of central tendency or measures of location. The mean is also known as the average, the median is the middle number while the mode is the most frequent element of data.

To better explain how to determine…