What is the difference between Mode and Median?

Median and Mode are calculations in mathematics but most students confuse the two because they can actually be confusing especially when you don't know their application, and they are really simple to solve when you know what to do. The difference between Mode and mean will be explained by using the following set of numbers, 2,5,5,6,7,2,4,3,5,6.

If you are asked to calculate the median for the numbers above, it means you are to look for the middle number in any given set of numbers, you start by rearranging the numbers in the decreasing or increasing order, and if you have two numbers at the middle, all you need to do is to add and divide them by 2. Here the median for the given set above is 5. Also, you might be asked to calculate the mode, it means you are to look for the number that occurs most in the set of numbers given. Using the numbers above, it is very obvious that the most frequent i.e the number with the highest frequency is 5 and that is the mode.