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What do the stats tell us? Engaging elementary children in probabilistic reasoning based on data analysis
Author(s) -
Hourigan Mairéad,
Leavy Aisling
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12084
Subject(s) - statistical inference , inference , mathematics education , probabilistic logic , computer science , statistical analysis , psychology , data science , statistics , artificial intelligence , mathematics
Summary As part of Japanese Lesson study research focusing on ‘comparing and describing likelihoods’, fifth grade elementary students used real‐world data in decision‐making. Sporting statistics facilitated opportunities for informal inference, where data were used to make and justify predictions.