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Watson, Jane – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2014
There are five words that are critical to an appreciation of what is "typical" in data sets that students encounter across the middle school years. The first three words--mean, median and mode--are nouns that define measures of typicality in data sets. The next two words--categorical and numerical--are adjectives that describe the types…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Data, National Curriculum, Outcome Measures
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Geake, John G.; Gross, Miraca U. M. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2008
A frequent reason for teachers not making special provisions for a gifted child is that the child is "not fitting in socially." The conjecture that a psychological source of such negative affect has evolved along with human language was tested with a large sample (N = 377) of teachers in England, Scotland, and Australia who were…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Semantics, Factor Structure, Semantic Differential