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Dealing with data : probability and sampling / Ralph Montesanto, David Zimmer.

Montesanto, Ralph, 1947- (Author). Zimmer, David. (Added Author).

Summary:

Dealing with Data: Probability and Sampling can help you take charge of your own learning in mathematics, but no book can learn mathematics for you. Recent educational research has shown that learners have to construct, or build up, their own meaning for each new idea they encounter. Most learners do this by connecting new information and concepts to what they already know or believe. That's why this book has been set up as a series of investigations in which you will actively explore two mathematical concepts - probability and sampling. Regardless of how clearly books or teachers explain new concepts, you are not likely to remember them or be able to apply them until you can connect these new ideas to your own world and your own experiences. With this book, you will learn how probability and sampling can be used to help people understand real-life situations.

Record details

ISBN: 0669954772 :
Physical Description: 96 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : D.C. Health Canada, c1996.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Discovering probability: Exploring probability; Estimating a population; The Monte Carlo method: Using random numbers; The capture-tag-recapture method; Estimating mixed populations -- Using sample data in decision making: Analyzing keyboard design; Making manufacturing decisions; Making quality control decisions -- Using probability and sampling: Applying probability and sampling to medicine; Applying probability and sampling to an environmental issue; Applying probability and sampling to drivers' licences -- Glossary.