The Teaching and Learning of Statistics: International Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Statistics....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Young Students’ Mental Modelling of Statistical Situations....Pages 13-23
Children’s Wonder How to Wander Between Data and Context....Pages 25-36
Supporting Students to Develop Concepts Underlying Sampling and to Shuttle Between Contextual and Statistical Spheres....Pages 37-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
The Language of Shape....Pages 51-61
Development of an Understanding of a Sampling Distribution....Pages 63-70
Korean High School Students’ Understanding of the Concept of Correlation....Pages 71-81
Connections Between Statistical Thinking and Critical Thinking: A Case Study....Pages 83-94
Tasks Associated to the Treatment of Tables at Elementary School and Its Level of Difficulty....Pages 95-96
An Analysis of the Statistical Contents Covered In China, Singapore and Taiwan Mathematics Textbooks at the Primary Level....Pages 97-98
Mathematical Modelling for Critical Statistics Education....Pages 99-100
Survey and Research on the Levels of High School Students’ Critical Evaluation of Statistical Information and the Influence Factors....Pages 101-115
The Conceptual Understanding of Variability in the Data Distributions....Pages 117-118
Students’ Misconceptions and Mistakes Related to Measurement in Statistical Investigation and Graphical Representation of Data....Pages 119-120
Overall Understanding of the Middle School Mathematics Course in Teaching Statistics Main Line....Pages 121-122
Growth on Fourth-Grade Students’ Mathematical Understanding of Average....Pages 123-124
Exploring Dot Plot in the Perspective of Embodied Cognition....Pages 125-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Students’ Difficulties in Understanding of Confidence Intervals....Pages 129-138
A Modeling and Simulation Approach to Informal Inference: Successes and Challenges....Pages 139-150
Students’ Understanding of Statistical Terms Having Lexical Ambiguity....Pages 151-161
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Student Understanding of Symbols in Introductory Statistics Courses....Pages 163-174
Two-Year College Mathematics Instructors’ Conceptions of Variation....Pages 175-176
Students’ Sense-Making of Graphical Representation in a Basic Statistics Module....Pages 177-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals....Pages 181-191
Undergraduate Students’ Conceptions of Variability in a Dynamic Computer-Based Environment....Pages 193-203
Transforming Statistics Education Through ICT Application....Pages 205-214
Selecting Technology to Promote Learning in an Online Introductory Statistics Course....Pages 215-225
The Role of Technology in Indian Statistics Education: A Review....Pages 227-233
Building Up the Box Plot as a Tool for Representing and Structuring Data Distributions: An Instructional Effort Using Tinkerplots and Evidence of Students’ Reasoning....Pages 235-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Integrated Reasoning About Statistical Variation: Secondary Teachers’ Development of Foundational Understandings....Pages 249-259
Preservice Teachers’ Difficulties with Statistical Writing....Pages 261-270
Teachers’ Questions in the Statistics Class....Pages 271-278
Statistical Training of Pre-service Teachers with Application in School Practice....Pages 279-288
Statistics in Primary Education in Greece: How Ready Are Primary Teachers?....Pages 289-298
Developing Statistical Literacy (DSL): Student Learning and Teacher Education....Pages 299-300
Teacher Capacity as a Key Element of National Curriculum Reform in Statistical Thinking: A Comparative Study Between Australia and China....Pages 301-313
A Framework for Assessing Statistical Knowledge for Teaching Based on the Identification of Conceptions of Variability Held by Teachers....Pages 315-325
An Investigation into the Statistics Education of Preservice Mathematics Teachers in an Irish University....Pages 327-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-334