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What Do the Stats Tell Us? Engaging Elementary Children in Probabilistic Reasoning Based on Data Analysis

Authors :
Hourigan, Mairéad
Leavy, Aisling
Source :
Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers. Spr 2016 38(1):8-15.
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

As part of Japanese Lesson study research focusing on "comparing and describing likelihoods", fifth grade elementary students used real-world data in decision-making. Sporting statistics facilitated opportunities for informal inference, where data were used to make and justify predictions.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0141-982X
Volume :
38
Issue :
1
Database :
ERIC
Journal :
Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
EJ1087495
Document Type :
Journal Articles<br />Reports - Descriptive
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12084