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Hi! I'm your new math teacher

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: December 11, 2010

Robo-math Will it soon come to this?

"But what is the true measurement?"

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: December 9, 2010

For several years,  I attempted to  teach pre-service teachers about the normal distribution through the distribution of measurement “errors”. I would find a male student who was willing to have his chest measured and ask other students in the class to take turns measuring his chest as accurately as possible – to the nearest of […]