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ERIC Number: EJ243060
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980
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Basic Science: Learning to Think in Terms of Probability.
Osborne, Denis G.
Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, v10 n4 p417-24 1980
Explores current trends in the basic sciences and relates these trends to general education and social change. Suggests that advances in scientific technology have made a basic understanding of elementary statistics and probability theory essential to all students if they are to be able to anticipate and adapt to social changes. (DB)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Relevance (Education), Sciences, Social Change
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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