THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMAL STATISTICAL THINKING IN YOUNG STUDENTS

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This paper focuses on developing students’ informal inference skills, reporting on how a group of third grade students formulated and evaluated data-based inferences using the dynamic statistics data-visualization environment Tinker Plots® (Konold & Miller, 2005), software specifi cally designed to meet the learning needs of students in the early grades. Children analyzed collected data using TinkerPlots® as an investigation tool, and made a presentation of their fi ndings to the whole school. Findings from the study support the view that statistics instruction can promote the development of learners’ inferential reasoning at an early age, through an informal, data-based approach. These also suggest that the use of dynamic statistics software has the potential to enhance statistics instruction by making inferential reasoning accessible to young learners.
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Παπαριστοδήμου (Efi Paparistodimou) Έ., & Μελετίου - Μαυροθέρη Μ. (2017). THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMAL STATISTICAL THINKING IN YOUNG STUDENTS. Research in Mathematics Education, (8), 87–106. https://doi.org/10.12681/enedim.14241
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