| Description |
xii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Series |
Principles and standards for school mathematics navigations series
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Principles and standards for school mathematics navigations series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136). |
| Summary |
Discusses the early development of data and probability concepts and shows teachers how to introduce some foundational ideas to secondary students. |
| Contents |
Decision making, variability, and sampling -- Making decisions with categorical data -- Making decisions with numerical data -- Designing studies -- Putting it all together -- Blackline masters and solutions. |
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Contents of accompanying CD-ROM: Table of standards and expectations, data analysis and probability, pre-K-12 -- Applets and activities -- Blackline masters and templates -- Beyond exploratory data analysis : the randomization test / Peter Barbella, Lorraine Denby, and James M. Landwehr -- Investigating distributions of sample means on the graphing calculator / Gloria B. Barrett -- Analyzing data from the Olympic games for trends and inferences / Richard T. Edgerton -- Spreadsheets : powerful tools for probability simulations / Edwin McClintock and Zhonghong Jiang -- The advanced placement course in statistics : increasing students' options / Anthony V. Piccolino -- Data fitting without formulas / Albert P. Shulte and Jim Swift -- Visual representations of mean and standard deviation / Charles Vonder Embse and Arne Engebretsen -- Probability, computer simulation, and mathematics / Karen Doyle Walton -- Measures of variability : mean absolute deviation and standard deviation -- Using probability theory -- Understanding type I and type II errors. |
| Subject |
Mathematical statistics -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Probabilities -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Probabilities -- Study and teaching (Secondary) |
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Mathematical statistics -- Study and teaching (Secondary) |
| Added Author |
Burrill, Gail.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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| ISBN |
0873535243 paperback |
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9780873535243 paperback |
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