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Peer reviewedMorita, June G. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Presents a hands-on activity in which students use the tools to derive the basic procedure used by wildlife biologists worldwide for estimating the sizes of wildlife populations. Helps students gain the feelings of power and ownership of a statistical method that they derive themselves. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Processing, Estimation (Mathematics), Mathematical Applications
