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Direct linkStrayer, Jeremy F.; Edwards, Michael Todd – Mathematics Teacher, 2015
A news story claiming that the cream filling of a popular "double" cream sandwich cookie is not really "double" went viral in fall 2013. A high school mathematics teacher posted a blog entry describing how he and his students measured 20 cookies, analyzed the data, and concluded that the double cream cookies had only 1.86 times…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, News Media, Mathematics Education, Statistics
Whitin, Phyllis; Whitin, David J. – Language Arts, 2008
Being a critical reader of data is an integral part of being fully literate in today's information age. In this article the authors underscore the interdisciplinary importance of this stance by drawing upon theoretical perspectives from both the fields of language and mathematics. They argue that all texts, including statistical ones, must be…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Heuristics, Grade 5, Statistics
