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A Lesson In Standard Deviation

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Students develop an informal understanding of standard deviation by having students find the mean and standard deviation of their hometown and comparing them to a town with a similar mean but a different standard deviation.

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standard deviation

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Grade
8th - Higher Ed
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Math
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