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Publication Date: 2015
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Teaching Statistics in Middle School Mathematics Classrooms: Making Links with Mathematics but Avoiding Statistical Reasoning
Savard, Annie; Manuel, Dominic
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) (38th, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, 2015)
Statistics is a domain that is taught in Mathematics in all school levels. We suggest a potential in using an interdisciplinary approach with this concept. Thus the development of the understanding of a situation might mean to use both mathematical and statistical reasoning. In this paper, we present two case studies where two middle school Mathematics teacher taught a lesson in Statistics where the students had the task create a pie graph representing the data. Results show us that their procedural vision of Statistics lead them to focus more on a graphical representation and thus led to avoid all statistical reasoning development (Garfield, 2002).
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Statistics, Middle Schools, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Interdisciplinary Approach, Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Graphs, Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Comparative Analysis, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Identifiers - Location: Canada
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