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Peer reviewedCapraro, Mary Margaret; Kulm, Gerald; Capraro, Robert M. – School Science and Mathematics, 2005
A sample of 134 sixth-grade students who were using the Connected Mathematics curriculum were administered an open-ended item entitled, Vet Club (Balanced Assessment, 2000). This paper explores the role of misconceptions and naive conceptions in the acquisition of statistical thinking for middle grades students. Students exhibited misconceptions…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Probability, Misconceptions, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewedWatson, Jane M.; Kelly, Ben A. – School Science and Mathematics, 2005
This study uses the context of the weather to explore the development of students' intuitive ideas of variation from pre-Grade 1 to Grade 9. Three aspects of understanding these intuitions associated with variation are explored in individual videotaped interviews with 73 students: explanations, suggestions of data, and graphing. The development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Interviews, Weather
