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Nilsson, Per – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2020
This study examines informal hypothesis testing in the context of drawing inferences of underlying probability distributions. Through a small-scale teaching experiment of three lessons, the study explores how fifth-grade students distinguish a non-uniform probability distribution from uniform probability distributions in a data-rich learning…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Statistics Education, Probability, Statistical Inference
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Nilsson, Per – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2007
The purpose of this study is to investigate the ways in which Swedish seventh grade students (12 and 13 years old) handle chance encounters. Four groups of students working in pairs participated in the study. In the group discussions, which were tape-recorded and fully transcribed, the students were encouraged to explore strategies for winning a…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Probability, Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents