The numbers game: A case study of mathematical literacy at a South African newspaper.

This paper draws on a mathematics audit of a South African newspaper to make a quantitative assessment of numerical accuracy in that local paper. It attempts to answer three research questions: how often do news reports in a daily newspaper include a quantitative element? How often do mathematical e...

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Publicado en:	Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory & Research Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 210 - 222
Autor principal:	Brand, Robert
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd 2008
Materias:	South African newspapers Performance evaluation Accuracy in journalism Mathematical ability Error analysis in mathematics Journalistic errors Objectivity in newspaper reporting South Africa
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