Mean+or+Average

Software applications like Microsoft Excel or Google Docs offer spreadsheet tools that will calculate mean, median, mode given a set of data.

The teacher recorded grades for a pretest and post test, and used the mean to compare the achievement growth from the pretest to the post test. The teacher found that the whole class gained about 5 points.

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