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Understanding Student Attempts to Find a Line of Fit
Author(s) -
Sorto M. Alejandra,
White Alexander,
Lesser Lawrence M.
Publication year - 2011
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.1467-9639.2010.00458.x
Subject(s) - line (geometry) , mathematics education , computer science , psychology , mathematics , statistics , geometry
Summary The least squares method of fitting a line is not one that naturally occurs to students. We present three tasks to understand student views on how lines may be fit.