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Median, mode, and range word problems worksheets

Once a child can find the median, mode, and range of a list, the next step is reading the list out of a situation. These free printable worksheets tell a small data set as a story — a bakery's daily sales, a farm's morning eggs — and ask for one of the three measures.

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Median, mode, and range word problems
Median, mode, and range word problems worksheet — Median, mode, and range, free printable with answer key

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What's on this sheet

Every set is five whole numbers with exactly one value repeated, and both of those are deliberate. Five is odd, so the median is a value actually in the set rather than the average of a middle pair a sixth-grader has no room to write; the single repeat means the mode is one number, not a tie the sheet cannot settle. The range is the largest minus the smallest, always whole.

Why this sheet works

The three questions share one shape of story, so a page can mix them and each row still says which measure it wants — the median number of cakes, which came up most often, the range. That is the real grade-six skill: not running one procedure down a column, but reading which of the three a question is asking for.

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One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.

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