ModeNumbers to 50
Name: Date:
Find the mode of each set of numbers.
1
Mode37, 5, 3, 47, 3
2
Mode24, 38, 32, 23, 23
3
Mode17, 27, 42, 7, 7
4
Mode11, 31, 18, 9, 11
5
Mode17, 12, 19, 12, 45
6
Mode23, 26, 5, 35, 26
Finding the mode worksheets
The mode is the value that shows up most often — the one average you find by counting rather than calculating. These free printable worksheets keep to the mode alone, with an answer key.
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Finding the mode
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
Mode is about frequency, not size, and that is the idea to say out loud: the largest number is rarely the mode, and the mode is rarely the largest number. A child counts how many times each value appears and names the one that appears most, which is why it is the first average a young student can do with no arithmetic at all.
Why this sheet works
Every set here has exactly one mode. Two values tied for most-frequent is a real distribution with a real name, but it cannot be marked in a single blank — the child writes one, the key holds the other — so each row repeats one value and every other value appears once. It is also the only average that works on things that are not numbers, like the most common color or shape.
How this one works
One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.
Mode of 37, 5, 3, 47, 3
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- The mode is the one that turns up MOST often. Nothing is added or ordered — it is a count.
- 3 appears 2 times, more than any other. So 3 is the mode.