School pupils' understanding of average

Authors: 
Goodchild, S.
Type: 
Journal Article
Category: 
Research
Volume: 
10(3)
Pages: 
77-81
Year: 
1988
Publisher: 
Teaching Statistics
Abstract: 

This article reports an exploratory study of what 13 to 14 year olds understand when confronted by the word average in the context of an everyday situation.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education