Thoughts on Teaching Week 7 tutorial
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Thoughts on Sect. 7.4
Students commonly forget the square root when computing s.e.(ˆp), and some just have trouble with the maths anyway.
Furthermore, the calculators may use scientific notation to display the results from some calculations (e.g. 2.2894×10−2 or 2.2894−2 as it displays on some calculators); many students will have no idea what's going on.