Although mean is compulsory in Year 6 and comes under the statistics section of the national curriculum for mathematics, where it states that ‘pupils should be taught to calculate and interpret the mean as an average.’ Median and mode are not part of the national curriculum in the UK. Inst...
Year 6 students have always had to work out the mean as an average, but before the amended national curriculum in 2014 came into effect, students also had to work out the median mode and range. The 2014 curriculum amendments only made it mandatory to teach mean. Read more: Teaching ...