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Peer reviewedShirk, George B. – School Science and Mathematics, 1979
Teaching mathematics as one would teach a science course (that is, as a field of intellectual inquiry) is advocated. Four illustrative activities, most appropriate for grades 5-8, are suggested. (MK)
Descriptors: Activities, Basic Skills, Data, Data Collection
Peer reviewedBarbella, Peter – Mathematics Teacher, 1987
Presented are two examples including data sets for which calculating various elementary statistics will reveal something new about the data. The objective of these examples is to show the student what various statistics may reveal, or not reveal, about a given data set. (PK)
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Education
