Capture and Recapture Your Students' Interest in Statistics.

Morita, June G.

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ERIC Number: EJ580572

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Capture and Recapture Your Students' Interest in Statistics.

Morita, June G.

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, v4 n6 p412-18 Mar 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, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools, Statistics, Wildlife

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers

Language: English

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Note: Focus Issue: Data and Chance in the Middle School Curriculum.