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From Sharing to Balancing – No Mean Feat!
Author(s) -
Holmes Peter
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9639.00120
Subject(s) - point (geometry) , computer science , mathematics education , statistics , mathematics , geometry
Summary This article suggests how to move from the primary school notion of the average being ‘fair shares for all’ to the secondary school idea of the mean being a ‘balancing point’.