Home of real teaching & learning
  • Full support for teachers
  • Focus on critical thinking
  • Engaging classroom activities
  • Integrated student eBook
  • Assessed tasks / qBank
  • Practice exam questions

The InThinking Guarantee: Our sites are written by expert practitioners and not by AI

See our AI policy

Disclaimer: InThinking subject sites are neither endorsed by nor connected with the International Baccalaureate Organisation.

Don't miss out, find out!

Central tendency and Dispersion

Mean, Mode, Median, Range, Variance, Standard Deviation Measures of central tendency, such as the mean, median and mode, are very useful ways of representing large amounts of data with just one value. They can be very useful in forming conclusions about data, but they can also misrepresent data and hide information. Measures of dispersion, such as range, interquartile range, variance and standard deviation are ways...

Help