Dave McKae teaching

The purpose of this video is teaching the mean as a balance point. Most people understand the algorithm, but they have never considered it as a balance point. I use a ruler, a paper towell roll, and 3 quarters to demonstrate how to do this. I then explain it using a line plot.

It took me a while to navigate my way around between emails and blogger because Willamette.edu accounts through gmail are not compatible with blogger and my blogger account is through gmail. Each time I tried to switch between documents, I had to log out and log in to the other account. Other than that, I found that it was easy to record video of my lesson using a tripod, though you never see my face. I had trouble embedding the video and chose to post the link instead. The website said I had to wait in line while the video was being converted (plus members don't have to wait).

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Dave McKae teaching