The Teaching and Learning of Statistics International Perspectives
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 docume
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The Teaching and Learning of Statistics International Perspectives
The Teaching and Learning of Statistics
Dani Ben-Zvi • Katie Makar Editors
The Teaching and Learning of Statistics International Perspectives
Editors Dani Ben-Zvi Faculty of Education The University of Haifa Haifa, Israel
Katie Makar School of Education The University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-23469-4 ISBN 978-3-319-23470-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23470-0
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Contents
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International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Statistics ....................................................................... Dani Ben-Zvi and Katie Makar
Part I
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Integrating the Contextual and the Statistical Worlds
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Young Students’ Mental Modelling of Statistical Situations............... Andreas Eichler and Markus Vogel
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Children’s Wonder How to Wander Between Data and Context ....... Dani Ben-Zvi and Keren Aridor-Berger
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Supporting Students to Develop Concepts Underlying Sampling and to Shuttle Between Contextual and Statistical Spheres ............... Adri Dierdorp, Arthur Bakker, Jan van Maanen, and Harrie Eijkelhof
Part II
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Learning Statistics at the School Level
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The Language of Shape .......................................................................... Pip Arnold and Maxine Pfannkuch
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Development of an Understanding of a Sampling Distribution .......... Eun-Sung Ko
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Korean High School Students’ Understanding of the Concept of Correlation .......................................................................................... A-Ra No, Soo-Yun Han, and Yun Joo Yoo
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Connections Between Statistic
Data Loading...
