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Figure 1. Four student strategies for estimating the total number of elephants in the picture. (Reprinted with permission from Mathematics in Context © 1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.).
![Figure 1. Four student strategies for estimating the total number of elephants in the picture. (Reprinted with permission from Mathematics in Context © 1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.).](/cms/asset/b6ca51a9-5005-41e3-a461-9792b99e3314/ujse_a_11910694_f0001_b.gif)
Figure 3 B as the arithmetic mean of A and C, in the way that numbers are represented in Euclid's Elements around 300 BC (CitationEuclid 1956).
![Figure 3 B as the arithmetic mean of A and C, in the way that numbers are represented in Euclid's Elements around 300 BC (CitationEuclid 1956).](/cms/asset/9a2254c5-6737-4f7b-89ee-be290cd8d10e/ujse_a_11910694_f0003_b.gif)