Teaching Average to Secondary School Students
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https://doi.org/10.31642/JoKMC/2018/010210Keywords:
statistics, teaching strategiesAbstract
This research is mainly concerned with novel strategies to teach average. It looks into the relevance understanding of some properties of the average (the arithmetic mean) to students general education in order to access its importance and place in curriculum design and to assess the effects of different teaching strategies, materials and media of presentation on student s understanding of that concept.
Teaching materials were designed and put into practice with a group of students. One of the two groups followed the teaching materials that was taught by us, using innovatory and various other teaching strategies. The other group was taught it by their usual teacher using standard teaching
methods. We compared the learning outcome of both methods, and evaluated teaching methods and materials.
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