Thoughts on Teaching Week 7 tutorial

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Thoughts on Sect. 7.3

Students commonly forget the square root. Furthermore, the calculators may use scientific notation to display the results from some calculations (e.g. \(2.2894\times 10^{-2}\) or \(2.2894^{-2}\) as it displays on some calculators); many students will have no idea what's going on.

Thoughts on Sect. 7.6

If you wish, you can form a CI for the ruler-drop (using jamovi).

In particular, if you get a negative number for one (or both) of the CI limits, you can discuss what the negative number (i.e., negative difference) means.

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