Simple numbers: ANOVA example of facilitating student learning in statistics

Teaching Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 102-105

  Lesser, Larry ^a   Melgoza, Lorraine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Intuition; Number sense; Teaching; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977785193     PISSN: 0141982X     EISSN: 14679639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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