How do you find median in math terms?

Answer 1

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.