Here's an example question so I can better explain this. Say you get a worksheet that says "Find the median of 10, 7, 4, 3, 16 and 10."
First you would arrange these numbers in numerical order, starting with the lowest. This would give you:
3, 4, 7, 10, 10, 16, 20
Cover 3 and 20 with two of your fingers. Then move inward, covering 4 and 16. Next you'd cover 7 and 10, leaving 10 in the middle. 10 is the median of these numbers.
Here's another example. "Find the median of 7, 9, 3, 5, 8 and 1."
1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9
Using the method above, there are two numbers left in the middle: 5 and 7. When there are two numbers left over, the median is in the middle of these. The median for the above sequence is 6.
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median means to find the middle number of a sequence which is in order
Mean and average are the same.
Mean is the average, and median is the middle number.
the median in math is the middle number of your data for example: 1,3,5,7,9. the median in that is 5.
The MEDIAN is the number in the middle. In order to find the median, you have to put the values in order from lowest to highest, then find the number that is exactly in the middle. For example : 80 85 90 90 90 100 ^ since there is an even number of values, the MEDIAN is between these two, or it is 90. Notice that there is exactly the same number of values above the median as below it! Its that simple.