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Forbes, Sharleen; Chapman, Jeanette; Harraway, John; Stirling, Doug; Wild, Chris – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
For many years, students have been taught to visualise data by drawing graphs. Recently, there has been a growing trend to teach statistics, particularly statistical concepts, using interactive and dynamic visualisation tools. Free down-loadable teaching and simulation software designed specifically for schools, and more general data visualisation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visualization, Graphs, Statistical Data
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Pratt, Dave; Johnston-Wilder, Peter; Ainley, Janet; Mason, John – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
In this reflective paper, we explore students' local and global thinking about informal statistical inference through our observations of 10- to 11-year-olds, challenged to infer the unknown configuration of a virtual die, but able to use the die to generate as much data as they felt necessary. We report how they tended to focus on local changes…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Early Adolescents, Interviews, Sample Size
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Paparistodemou, Efi; Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Maria – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
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 TinkerPlots[TM] (Konold & Miller, 2005), software specifically designed to meet the learning needs of students in the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Analysis, Grade 3, Statistics