You don’t need to be a baseball fan to know that the distance from third base to first base is a lot less than three miles. Yet that’s what several students came up with (16,200 feet to be exact) in a ...

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The researchers compared children’s ability to estimate quantity with their level of mathematics achievement. To conduct the study, the researchers gave 71 ninth graders two series of tests designed ...

This note outlines an approach for introducing students to estimation and hypothesis testing with censored data using a National Hockey League example. We consider the effects of extending the ...

Maximum likelihood (ML) provides a powerful and extremely general method for making inferences over a wide range of data/model combinations. The likelihood function and likelihood ratios have clear ...

Math researchers discovered new evidence about math learning disabilities. Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered that the innate ability to estimate quantities is ...