Mean, Median, Mode: Reacquinted

       Mean, median and mode were already taught to us even before back in high school and elementary days. This activity reminded me of how I love Mathematics. It was my first love before English.

            As future English teachers, we were taught about mainly literature and grammar. During our first year in college, we were given sentences, subject-verb agreement and choosing words as our breakfast every morning. Our lunch was composed of nutritious structure of the English language and our dinner was the different literatures around the world. Because of that experience I thought that I will eventually lost my appetite for numbers.

            Mean is like the average because they have the same formula. Median is the most challenging number to find because you have to arrange first the numbers into chronological order and then, find the middlemost number. The mode is the easiest to find but it is also tricky because you have to make sure that it is really the number that occurs the most frequently.

            Measures of central tendency are very important because it can help a teacher to summarize the results of her students. She can also describe if she got the positively skewed or negatively skewed.

             I realize that if you really love something, that love will never fade away. Mathematics will always be a part of who I am. Now, who says English Majors can’t do math?