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The Bell Curve

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  • Aug 4 2010 10:56 PM

    Ninfa Vega

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The goal of this lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., is to introduce the concepts of the normal curve, skewness, and the standard deviation. The controversy over the 1994 book "The Bell Curve" is also examined.

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    Grade: 6 to 8

    Topics: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Geometry, Probability

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