Preservice teachers understanding of the mean: Moving beyond the arithmetic average

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-90

  Leavy, Aisling ^a   O'Loughlin, Noreen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Children s Research Network   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Elementary education; Statistics education; Teacher content knowledge; Teacher education; The mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746415666     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-006-9003-y     Document Type: Article

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