At 01:50 PM 9/26/2006, you wrote:
1) Most students in my undergraduate statistics class has had
some college-level math class. On their first exam, which I had
them take without a calculator, over one-fourth of them could not
get the mean of 4 numbers, because the sum was 26! (Five of them
said 6.2, and one admitted that she new it was a little over 6, but
didn't know what to do with the, "2 that was left over.")
Related story, but sadly from a graduate student (not in our
department, but taking our advanced statistics course)... when asked
to calculate a proportion stated that it wasn't possible to divide a
small number by a larger one and that doing so just didn't make sense.
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Senior Lecturer & Technology Coordinator
Department of Psychology
Texas State University-San Marcos
San Marcos, TX 78666
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