Common Errors in English Usage: Mean and Median

We’re in the middle of a long run of posts that offer worksheets adapted from Paul Brians‘ excellent usage manual Common Errors in English Usage–which, as I always point out, Professor Brians allows free access to at his Washington State University web page.

This one is on the use of the words mean and median. While this is ostensibly a usage exercise (in a full-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and five modified cloze exercises) that aims to assist students in differentiating these two nouns and using them properly, it also includes basic instructions on how to calculate a mean.

So there is a bit numeracy work here as well.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.