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Arm‐waving Mathematics: Sound, if Not Rigorous
Author(s) -
Brewer Ken
Publication year - 1995
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/j.1467-9639.1995.tb00719.x
Subject(s) - computer science , calculus (dental) , mathematics education , mathematics , medicine , dentistry
Summary This article suggestes some teachniques, herein referred to as ‘arm‐waving’, which utilise analogies, graphs and examples to illustrate the contribution of mathematisc to statistical concepts without a rigorous treatment of the mathematics used.