Teaching standard deviation by building from student invention

Physics Teacher

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 546-548

  Day, James ^a   Nakahara, Hiroko ^b   Bonn, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 85007312304     PISSN: 0031921X     EISSN: 19434928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.3502511     Document Type: Article

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