Episode Details

Statistics Problem Strings? Yes Please! In this episode Pam and Kim demonstrate a Problem String that helps students develop intuition for the meanings of mean, median, and mode.
Talking Points:

• Names are social knowledge, but the feel for what they mean in the data is logical mathematical knowledge
• Experience with data helps students develop real understanding of mean, median, mode 
• Changing the data values and comparing how that affects the measures of central tendency deepen understanding

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