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Middle Grades: Misconceptions in Statistical Thinking
Author(s) -
Capraro Mary Margaret,
Kulm Gerald,
Capraro Robert M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
school science and mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1949-8594
pISSN - 0036-6803
DOI - 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2005.tb18156.x
Subject(s) - mathematics education , meaning (existential) , club , statistical thinking , curriculum , psychology , statistical analysis , pedagogy , mathematics , statistics , medicine , psychotherapist , anatomy
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 naïve conceptions in the acquisition of statistical thinking for middle grades students. Students exhibited misconceptions and naïve conceptions regarding representing data graphically, interpreting the meaning of typicality, and plotting 0 above the x ‐axis.