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Experimental Theory at School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

A. J. Sherlock
A. J. Sherlock*
Affiliation:
St. Dunstan’s College, Catford S.E 6
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Statistics is not a strange subject on its own, but should come in naturally in planning and discussing experiments in Physics. Boys must be trained not to expect to get the answer but to get an answer with a certain degree of accuracy. I was lucky to find a group of 15 year olds who didn’t ‘know’ the formula for the period of a simple pendulum. Experiments on this lead to the revision of many of the topics in my statistics programme.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 49 , Issue 367 , February 1965 , pp. 34 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1965

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