Median — The Middle Value

~10 min · 6th grade

Five houses on a street have very different prices. Which "average" price best describes the neighborhood?

Find the median by ordering values and finding the middle. Understand when median is more useful than mean.

Real world: Real estate agents use median home price (not mean) because one expensive mansion would skew the mean and mislead buyers.

BUILD IT

Drag the houses to sort them from cheapest to most expensive. The middle house is the median.

Prices sorted: $250k, $260k, $280k, $300k, $1,200k. What is the median price?