Delta-K,  Teaching Ideas,  Volume 18, Issue 3

BASEBALL STATISTICS: Examples of the Mean, Median, and Mode

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 18 Issue 3, March 1979

6 – 10

BASEBALL STATISTICS: Examples of the Mean, Median, and Mode

Bonnie H. Litwiller and David R. Duncan

When students refer to “the average” of a set of data, they usually are describing either the mean (sum of the scores divided by the number of scores), the median (the middle score), or the mode (the most frequent score).