The Teaching and Learning of Statistics [electronic resource] : International Perspectives /
Ben-Zvi, Dani.editor.
Makar, Katie.editor.
This stimulating overview of current innovations in teaching and learning statistics reflects both ongoing trends in the field and the increasing relevance of statistics in our data-driven era. A global panel of scholars, educators, and researchers documents wide-scale challenges such as students integrating statistical and contextual knowledge and teachers developing statistical literacy. The editors and contributors make it clear that the wider uses of statistics are not only applicable to the STEM subjects, but also to critical thinking and reasoning across disciplines, tasks, and interests. The diversity of statistics education is itself on display in terms of curriculum choices, pedagogical strategies, assessment methods, and technological support. Among the topics covered: Learning to integrate statistical and work-related reasoning. Mathematical modeling for critical statistics education. Connections between statistical thinking and critical thinking. Students’ sense-making of graphical representation in a basic statistics module. Undergraduate students’ conceptions of variability in a dynamic computer-based environment. Preservice teachers’ difficulties with statistical writing. Teaching and Learning Statistics captures a watershed moment in education, and is a worthy resource for mathematics teachers and researchers, particularly those interested in statistics education. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Introduction: International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Statistics -- Young Students' Mental Modelling of Statistical Situations -- Learning to Integrate Statistical and Work-Related Reasoning -- Children Wonder how to Wander Between Data and Context -- Supporting Students to Develop Concepts Underlying Sampling and to Shuttle Between Contextual and Statistical Spheres -- The Language of Shape -- Development of an Understanding of a Sampling Distribution -- Korean High School Students' Understanding of the Concept of Correlation -- Connection Between Statistical Thinking and Critical Thinking?: A Case Study -- Tasks Associated to the Treatment of Tables at Elementary School and Its Level of Difficulty -- Characteristics of Abductive Explanation in Statistics Education of Lower Secondary School -- An Analysis of the Statistical Contents Covered in China, Singapore and Taiwan Mathematics Textbooks at the Primary Level -- Mathematical Modelling for Critical Statistics Education -- Survey and Research on the Levels of High School Students' Critical Evaluation of Statistical Information and the Influence Factors -- Aspects of Statistical Literacy in Grades 5 and 6 -- The Conceptual Understanding of Variability in the Data Distribution -- Students' Misconceptions and Mistakes Related to the Measurementin Statistical Investigation and Graphical Representation of Data -- Overall Understanding of the Middle School Mathematics Course in Teaching Statistics Main Line -- Growth on Fourth-Grade Students' Mathematical Understanding of Average -- The Disaster at the Nuclear Power Station and its District -- Exploring Dotplot in the Perspective of Embodied Cognition -- Students' Difficulties in Understanding the Confidence Intervals -- A Modeling and Simulation Approach to Informal Inference -- Students' Understanding Statistical Terms Having Lexical Ambiguity -- Student Understanding of Symbols in Introductory Statistics Courses -- Two Year College Mathematics Instructors' Concepts of Variation -- Students' Sense Making of Graphical Representation in Basic Statistics -- Teaching Some Basic Statistical Concepts by Experimentation -- Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals -- Undergraduate Students' Conceptions of Variability in a Dynamic Computer-Based Environment -- Transforming Statistics Education Through ICT Application -- Selecting Technology to Promote Learning in an Online Introductory Statistics Course -- The Role of Technology in Indian Statistic Education: A Review -- Building Up the Boxplot in Indian Statistics Education -- Building up the Boxplot as a Tool for Representing and Structuring Data Distributions -- Integrated Reasoning about Statistical Variation.-Preservice Teachers' Difficulties with Statistical Writing -- Teachers' Questions in the Statistics Class -- Statistical Training of Pre-Service Teachers with Application in School Practice -- Statistics in Primary Education in Greece -- Developing Statistical Literacy (DSL) -- Teacher Capacity as a Key Element of National Curriculum Reform in Statistical Thinking -- A Framework for Assessing Statistical Knowledge for Teaching Based on the Identification of Conceptions of Variability Held by Teachers -- An Investigation into the Statistics Education of Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers at an Irish University.
This stimulating overview of current innovations in teaching and learning statistics reflects both ongoing trends in the field and the increasing relevance of statistics in our data-driven era. A global panel of scholars, educators, and researchers documents wide-scale challenges such as students integrating statistical and contextual knowledge and teachers developing statistical literacy. The editors and contributors make it clear that the wider uses of statistics are not only applicable to the STEM subjects, but also to critical thinking and reasoning across disciplines, tasks, and interests. The diversity of statistics education is itself on display in terms of curriculum choices, pedagogical strategies, assessment methods, and technological support. Among the topics covered: Learning to integrate statistical and work-related reasoning. Mathematical modeling for critical statistics education. Connections between statistical thinking and critical thinking. Students’ sense-making of graphical representation in a basic statistics module. Undergraduate students’ conceptions of variability in a dynamic computer-based environment. Preservice teachers’ difficulties with statistical writing. Teaching and Learning Statistics captures a watershed moment in education, and is a worthy resource for mathematics teachers and researchers, particularly those interested in statistics education. .
Mathematics.
Mathematics Education.
Learning & Instruction.