Math Arguments

180 Days of Ideas for Discussion in Math Class. (as of 9July2014, we're in overtime!)

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Friday, September 12, 2014

Can you create a data set of more than 5 numbers so that when you add one additional number to the set, you can raise the median but not the mean?

Curmudgeon: I'm a high-school math teacher completely frustrated with new math, reform math, fuzzy math, the color of math, talking about math, literacy across the curriculum and all those other things that get in the way of students actually learning math, not to mention the ever-present "You need to help raise our scores by taking one day a week to go over test-taking skills" and other administrative folderol. (He/Him/Mr.)

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