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Xin, Yan Ping; Zhang, Dake – Journal of Educational Research, 2011
This article presents the authors' response to Asha K. Jitendra's Response to Xin and Zhang ("The Journal of Educational Research," 2009, Vol. 102, No. 6). The claim of "factual errors, including inappropriate quotes, misrepresentation of information, and inadequate scholarship in Xin and Zhang's text" are not justified. In this rejoinder, the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Word Problems (Mathematics), Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods
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Lipovetsky, Stan – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2008
Benford's law of the "first digits" states that in spite of intuitively expected equal frequency of 1/9 of the decimal digits r = 1, ... , 9 appearance on the first place of any number, various empirical studies show another pattern of these frequencies distribution, which is log[subscript 10](1 + 1/r). The article considers this law and other…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Statistical Distributions, Mathematical Formulas, Matrices