Assignment on Central Tendency and Dispersion 1. A manufacturer of hand shovels is deciding what length handles to use. Studies of user preference reveal that the average‚ the median‚ mean and mode of preferred length are all different. What are the implications of using each of these values? Which value would you decide? 2. A given machine is assumed to depreciate 40 percent in value in the first year‚ 25 percent in value in the 2nd year and 10 percent in value in the next three years; each
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Answer the following problems showing your work and explaining (or analyzing) your results. 1. Describe the measures of central tendency. Under what condition(s) should each one be used? Mean- Works good when it comes to test scores Median- should be used when describing something like average income. Mode= is good is you want to see what is you best seeing product in a store situation. 2. Last year‚ 12 employees from a computer company retired. Their ages at retirement are listed below.First‚
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Montessori Education versus alternative education; Cognitive Outcomes‚ Creative outcomes & Behavioral Outcomes Beth A. Beehler Metropolitan State College of Denver PSYCH 4960 Abstract Introduction Does Montessori education provide society with children who are better educated? In this senior thesis we will examined several studies in depth to try and pull an answer to this question. Education is multi-dimensional. Education is a complex activity that tests students motivation‚ and physical
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Task Analysis 1. Tactile Training:- To enhance the sense of touch 3.2 stereognostic sense 3.2.2 The Baric tablets Nature of the activity :- Table activity Material Required:- 1) Tray with Blind fold. 2)Baric tablet box 1 & 3 Presentation :- The teachers greets child "Good Morning Mary" How are you today? Today we will be doing a very interesting activity‚we will be working with Baric tablets. Would you like to do it
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emergence of knowledge and volition‚ it becomes imperative to establish some order and clarity within the mind and to distinguish what is essential from what is accidental… To satisfy this need‚ he should have an exact‚ scientific guide such as that which is to be found in our apparatus and exercises.” Dr. Montessori – The discovery of the child‚ chap.6 Dr. Montessori describes sensorial materials as the key to the universe. Discuss the statement and give examples to support your discussions.
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people don’t check their tires to ensure they have tires that will provide them with the appropriate amount of traction to continually drive safely. If you don’t check your tires‚ you could face many problems on the road. Worn Tires Increase the Tendency for Rubber Failure It’s no shocker that your tires consists of mostly rubber. Tire manufacturers rely on rubber and other compounds to maintain traction and air pressure. When you drive your car on worn tires‚ the heat produced from driving causes
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Central Tendency Measures of Central Tendency There are many ways of describing of a given set of data. A good number of descriptive measures exist in statistics whose use depends largely on the nature of data and the intended purpose of the description. This measure is the measures of position or central tendency‚ it is use to see how a large set of raw materials can be summarized so that the meaningful essential can be extracted from it. The most commonly measures of central tendency are the
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“The power to obey is the last phase in the development of the will‚ which in its turn has made obedience possible.” (Montessori‚ 1988‚ p.239) Montessori believed that the disorderly and disobedient acts of a young child where from those actions that he/she had yet to develop and so where unable to control successfully. Discipline and obedience could not therefore be inflicted on a young child as had been traditionally thought‚ nor could it be sustained through rewards and punishments. “Obedience
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Sensorial education begins the mionte a baby is born. He receives impressions through his senses. Mria Montessori believed that there was nothing in the intellect that did not first exist in the senses and the first of the childs organs that begin to function are the senses. During the forst thress years of a child life all the impressions received from the childs environment are stored in the unconscious memeory‚ The “mneme” A young child receives and perceives everything‚ both positive and negative
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operatic diva such as Callas? To enable us to comment on Maria Callas as an operatic diva‚ it is first necessary to ascertain whether she possess all the stated attributes usually associated with the term. The conductor Sir Charles Mackerras believes there must be an ‘aura’‚ but ‘there also has to be something unusual as well as competent about a diva‚ something compelling about her personality’ (reference). This was certainly true of Maria Meneghini Callas. The opening paragraph of the newspaper
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