Maths glossary · United Kingdom
Mode
The value that appears most often in a set of data.
A set can have one mode, more than one, or none if every value appears the same number of times.
Example: The mode of 2, 3, 3, 5, 7 is 3.
Lessons, worksheets, practice and tools on this: Data and graphs.
Related words
- Mean: The average: add all the values, then divide by how many there are.
- Median: The middle value when the data is put in order.
- Probability: How likely something is to happen.
- Line plot: A graph that shows data on a number line, with an X above the number for each data point.