I was challenged since I needed to fully

understand the topic in order to share it to the class

properly and in a way that it can be understood easily.
Measures of Position
Despite the challenges, I enjoyed learning by myself. I
had a lot of fun sharing my learnings to my
After gaining knowledge about the important
classmates. I learned a lot and I loved discovering new
concepts of the topic, we tackled about finding the
During the last quarter of Mathematics
things which 10, I to the knowledge and wisdom that
added
quartiles, deciles, and percentiles of ungrouped data. I
learned about the measures of position.
I amI keeping.
was curious,
discovered that there are three methods for finding the
excited, and eager to learn and dig deep into this topic.
quartiles which are the Moore and McCabe Method,
with the help of our math teacher, I was able of
the Tukey Method, and the Mendenhall and Sincich
broaden my knowledge and understanding about the
Method. I enjoyed solving for the quartiles using these
measures of position.
three methods but I realized that the Mendenhall and
We were taught that the measures of position Sincich method is more practical and systematic since
give us a way to see where a certain data point or it uses a formula and it can also be used in solving for
value falls in a sample or distribution. It can tell us deciles and percentiles. In addition, we also learned
whether a value is about average, or whether it is about interpreting the data or the measures of position
unusually high or low. With this initial knowledge, I of a certain value.
wondered how I could solve for the measure of
After we finished discussing about ungrouped
position of a certain value. But before we discussed
data, we moved on into solving for the measures of
about that lesson, we were first taught about the terms
position of grouped data. It included solving for
that are relevant to the topic.
quartiles, deciles, percentile, and percentile rank. A
The measures of position are applied for number of formulas were used and a lot of concepts
grouped data and ungrouped data. The purpose of this and terms were included in solving for this topic. It is
is to identify the position of a raw data or a much more complex and challenging than the first
summarized data. Moreover, the measures of position one, especially since we were assigned to report it or
that divide a distribution into four, ten, and hundred to discuss it in front of the class.
equal parts are called quantiles. It has three
classifications known as quartiles, deciles, and
percentiles.