Touching epistemologies: Meanings of average and variation in nursing practice

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-51

  Noss, Richard ^a   Pozzi, Stefano ^a   Hoyles, Celia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Average; Maths in work; Nursing; Statistics; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002232845     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003763812875     Document Type: Article

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