[IAEP] [support-gang] When teaching restrains discovery

[Maria Droujkova]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> The study involved
> "149 (American) preschoolers (mean age: 60 months, range:
> 48–72 months) (that) were recruited in a metropolitan
> Science Museum. Most children were white and middleclass,
> but a range of ethnicities resembling the diversity of
> the population was represented".

This does not describe a meaningful population for such a study. There are
huge differences, for example, between "home-grown kids" and
"institution-grown kids" that can both come from middle-class families.

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova

Make math your own, to make your own math.
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