The middle of what...?: Students' images of mean, median and mode


Book: 
Twentieth International Conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
Authors: 
Cudmore, D.
Category: 
Year: 
1996
Place: 
Valencia, Spain
Abstract: 

This talk is to discuss the mental images that certain students appear to articulate while they are engaged in posing and solving problems involving means, medians and modes.

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