ERIC Number: EJ851277
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 6
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Having a Whale of a Time
du Feu, Chris
Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, v31 n3 p66-71 Fall 2009
A classroom practical exercise exploring the reliability of a basic capture-mark-recapture method of population estimation is described using great whale conservation as a starting point. Various teaching resources are made available.
Descriptors: Animals, Ecology, Demography, Statistics, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Activities, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Computation, Measurement, Measurement Techniques
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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