Structuring Error and Experimental Variation as Distribution in the Fourth Grade.

Petrosino, Anthony J.; Lehrer, Richard; Schauble, Leona

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ERIC Number: EJ665242

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Structuring Error and Experimental Variation as Distribution in the Fourth Grade.

Petrosino, Anthony J.; Lehrer, Richard; Schauble, Leona

Mathematical Thinking and Learning, v5 n2-3 p131-56 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 evolving concepts of characteristics of distribution. (KHR)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Instructional Design, Learning Strategies, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction, Statistical Distributions, Statistics, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Models and Modeling Perspectives.