Using Garlic As A Far-Transfer Problem of Proportional And Probabilistic Reasoning
Physics Education
2008-11-14 v1
Abstract
The work describes a general problem, which emphasizes proportional reasoning and probabilistic reasoning skills in the context of planting garlic in a backyard garden. Along with practicing these reasoning skills in a context far-removed from the standard high school or college curriculum, our solution involves the development of a few relatively sophisticated statistical concepts, specifically histograms and confidence intervals.
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@article{arxiv.0811.2133,
title = {Using Garlic As A Far-Transfer Problem of Proportional And Probabilistic Reasoning},
author = {N. T. Moore and J. C. Deming},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2133},
year = {2008}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures