[Maths-Education] Request: references about the history of averages

Stephen Brierley maths-education@nottingham.ac.uk
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 05:32:50 +0100


> Would it cause problems for your initial hypothesis if I said that I,
> and I think most Secondary school teachers in this part of the country
> (could be wrong here:), normally list them as mean, mode and median?

I always quote "Mean, median and mode" -- but I can only claim to speak 
for myself!

Stephen Brierley
Maths teacher,
Bolton.