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Peer reviewedPetrosino, Anthony J.; Lehrer, Richard; Schauble, Leona – Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 2003
Presents an instructional forum in which students and teachers work with researchers to engage in coordinated cycles of planning and implementing instruction and studying forms of students' thinking that emerged in the classroom. Reports on an 8-week teaching and learning study of elementary students' thinking about distribution, including their…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Instructional Design
Direct linkPfannkuch, Maxine – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2006
Drawing conclusions from the comparison of datasets using informal statistical inference is a challenging task since the nature and type of reasoning expected is not fully understood. In this paper a secondary teacher's reasoning from the comparison of box plot distributions during the teaching of a Year 11 (15-year-old) class is analyzed. From…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Statistical Inference, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers
