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ERIC Number: EJ445971
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-8756-7555
Flipping Frisbees and Finding Flowers: Developing Statistical Intuition.
Wolfe, Christopher R.
College Teaching, v41 n2 p60 Spr 1992
An activity in a college statistics class had students go to a field of grass and clover and use a variety of estimation, probability, sampling, distribution, and calculation techniques for determining the number of flowers in the field. The activity focused on the discovery process, encouraged abstract reasoning, and was pleasurable. (MSE)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Estimation (Mathematics), Higher Education, Intuition, Mathematics Instruction, Probability, Statistics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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