*embarrassed mode on*

Mmm lads year 7 maths homework, question is what does bimodal mean and give an example.
*I shall give my a level maths training back*

Imagine a woman lying down on her back. You are looking at her head down. That’s bimodal.

Either that – or imagine a ‘bumpy road’ sign.

I’m none the wiser. As in two exact rises on a graph? I’ve really no idea!

The probability distribution function looks like boobs – I.e. It has two maxima.

Can you tell I’m a somewhat immature maths teacher?

Edit: for a Year 7 question, something like a set of data with two modes, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8.

Heh, it’s one of the latest management buzz words in my office at the moment.

Gartner released some report saying that larger corporations need to adopt agile software development practices else they risk being left behind; but also need to stick with the existing way of doing things for applications already deployed.

Hence we are now ‘bimodel’, which in reality means that there are even more headless chickens – product owners now think that being agile means they can change their minds every 5 minutes…

…probably not the example you were looking for 😛

it can be used to mean trains that can run on two different power sources electric or diesel. but i don’t think its that.

BEB do you perhaps work for a large high St bank that likes a bit of horse action?

And finally what is the mode in this sequence
21 8 5 0 14 17 1 27 32

Mode

In my line of work (warehouse design) it means loading both trains and lorries… But I’m guessing that’s not quite what a 7 year olds teacher is getting at. I like the boob theory

It’s two modals innit. Obvious 🙄

Cheers fellas.

A catwalk model that gets an middling pay rate between the well paid women and badly paid men? 😉

It’s two modals innit. Obvious

or one Modal that swings both ways

I’d hope that the boy knows the answers to his homework – it’s his homework, not his dad’s. I wish parents would realise they’re not helping by doing their kids’ homework for them!!

PS, no, I have no idea what bimodal is, despite also having done maths at A level.

The trouble with trying to help kids with their homework is that you need to understand what and how the teacher is teaching them. Otherwise you can add to the confusion for the poor kid

In this situation I think bimodal means there are two modes and for the set without a mode the answer will be that there is no mode. This may not be the correct answer.

Helping your children with their homework is a great thing to do imho. I don’t just fill it in for him we go through it and I explain where needed. I’d possibly have to ask if the subject has been taught then why did he have no idea what it was?

I’d possibly have to ask if the subject has been taught then why did he have no idea what it was?

he wasn’t listening?