Statistical Questions from the Classroom

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Author: Jane Watson
Date: Winter 2005
From: Australian Mathematics Teacher(Vol. 61, Issue 4)
Publisher: The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, Inc.
Document Type: Book review
Length: 479 words

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Statistical Questions from the Classroom J. Michael Shaughnessy & Beth Chance Published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2005, 89 pp., soft cover ISBN 0873535820 Available from AAMT $30.00 ($41.25 non-members)

Statistical Questions from the Classroom is a "must" book for the desk of every high school mathematics teacher. As statistics becomes a more important part of the school curriculum overall, as well as a more important component of the mathematics curriculum, answering the questions posed in the eleven chapters in this book becomes increasingly significant. The reliance on learning formulae without a deep intuitive appreciation of the meanings behind them has been the bane of students and teachers alike for many years. Even at tertiary level...

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