Submitted:
23 April 2020
Posted:
25 April 2020
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Abstract
This study explores students’ understanding of one measure of central tendency, the mean. A teaching experiment was conducted to understand how sixth-grade students made sense of this concept. Findings suggest that the students know how to solve mathematical problems related to mean using procedural understanding and lack of conceptual understanding.
Keywords:
statistics
; mean
; weighted mean
; average
; mathematical thinking
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