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Exploring Students’ Understanding of Statistical Mean
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: Received: 23 April 2020 / Approved: 25 April 2020 / Online: 25 April 2020 (02:50:55 CEST)
How to cite: Amiruzzaman, M. Exploring Students’ Understanding of Statistical Mean. Preprints.org 2020, 2020040455. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0455.v1. Amiruzzaman, M. Exploring Students’ Understanding of Statistical Mean. Preprints.org 2020, 2020040455. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0455.v1.
Abstract
This study explores students’ understanding of one measure of central tendency, the mean. A teaching experiment was conducted to understand how sixth-grade students made sense of this concept. Findings suggest that the students know how to solve mathematical problems related to mean using procedural understanding and lack of conceptual understanding.
Keywords
statistics; mean; weighted mean; average; mathematical thinking
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Probability and Statistics
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