/adultnumeracycenter/will-this-be-on-the-test-feb-2022/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:56:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /adultnumeracycenter/will-this-be-on-the-test-feb-2022/#comment-32 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:56:21 +0000 /adultnumeracycenter/?p=1866#comment-32 […] One helpful way of thinking about the mean is to imagine redistributing the children so that every student cares for the same number of children. That number is the mean. Are there enough dots (children) to put one dot in each circle? Are there enough to put 2? This representation shows both the total number of children cared for and the total number of students in the class. If you are not sure how this gives you what you need to find the mean, consider what you do in the traditional procedure for finding the mean. Where in that procedure do you encounter the total number of children cared for? How in that procedure do you use the total number of students? (For more on visualizing and thinking conceptually about means, see the February 2022 installment of Will This Be on the Test?) […] ]]>