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Direct linkGroth, Randall E.; Kent, Kristen D.; Hitch, Ebony D. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
Considerable discrepancies between the mean and median often occur in data sets that are skewed left, skewed right, or have other unusual features. In such cases, it is important to analyze the data and context carefully to decide how best to describe centers of distributions. The importance of this type of statistical thinking is acknowledged in…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Mathematics Instruction, Statistical Analysis, Statistics
