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Direct linkSullivan, Patrick – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2022
Probabilistic reasoning underpins much of middle school students' future work in data analysis and inferential statistics. Unfortunately for many middle school students, probabilistic reasoning is not intuitive. One specific area in which students seem to struggle is determining the probability of compound events (Moritz and Watson 2000). Research…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Middle School Students, Data Analysis
Konold, Cliff; Harradine, Anthony; Kazak, Sibel – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2007
In current curriculum materials for middle school students in the US, data and chance are considered as separate topics. They are then ideally brought together in the minds of high school or university students when they learn about statistical inference. In recent studies we have been attempting to build connections between data and chance in the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Computer Software, Statistical Inference, Statistical Distributions
