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uantitative
R
easoning &
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roblem
S
olving
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M
aking it Matter
Solving problems in your life
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When calculating your grade point average, what is the best measure for central tendency? What
would you recommend if you were hiring or recruiting for a graduate school as what measure should
we use?
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In looking at salaries for a career in a profession that interests you, would you look at the mean or
median starting salary? What is the most important measure of these central tendencies and why?
L
earning to Learn Mathematics
Reflecting on and appreciating your learning
1. Why is context so important in deciding which approach to use in measuring central tendency?
2. When reasoning quantitatively and solving problems, how do you size up a situation to help determine
which tools, techniques, knowledge, and processes you are going to use to address that situation
effectively?
3. Why do we want to know
how
something is calculated even though we will end up using tools that
perform the actual calculation for us?
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ssessing Your Performance
Assessing your performance as a learner
Review the description of
A Successful Performance
and assess your own performance against the
standard offered there.
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How and why was your performance
SUCCESSFUL
?
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How can you
IMPROVE
your performance, making it more successful? What
concrete steps
do you
need to take to make each improvement?
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