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Re: The perfect math curr - Start at removing items
Posted by Terrence on 4/28/08

    I'm with you on Box and Whiskers! Next year, I'm just going to
    teach it as just another silly way people like to visually see
    data. I am going to have them do a project and just try to teach
    them that box and whiskers is just a fancy way to show medians of
    the different parts of the data.

    On 4/28/08, Joan wrote:
    > I teach 8th grade pre-algebra and algebra. I hate box and
    > whisker plots! I assume it's supposed to show them that
    > numbers can be displayed and evaluated in different ways, and
    > it could help to develop number sense, but my feeling is that
    > it's a waste of time and that it confuses more kids than it
    > helps. I don't want to scare the kids away from math!


 
 
 
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