Averages by John Hawkhead

mean median mode
learning my average
did not measure up

By John Hawkhead

In mathematics mean, mode and medium are different types of averages from a data set:

• Mean is the average of a data set, calculated by adding all the data set numbers and then dividing the result by the total of values in the set.
• Median is the middle value of a data set ordered from least to greatest.
• Mode is the value that appears the most times in a set of data.

Further reading:

‘Central tendency’, Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tendency

Author bio:

John Hawkhead (@HawkheadJohn) has been writing haiku and illustrating for over 25 years. His work has been published all over the world and he has won a number of haiku competitions. John’s books of haiku and senryu, ‘Small Shadows’ and ‘Bone Moon’, are now available from Alba Publishing (http://www.albapublishing.com/).

Enjoyed John’s sciku? Check out more of his sciku here: ‘Dark matter’, ‘Chirality’, ‘Spooky Interaction’, ‘Dancing’, ‘Planetarium’, ‘Empty Space’, ‘New Beginning’, ‘Interactions’, and ‘Surface Tension’.