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Relating Students' Proportional Reasoning Level and Their Understanding of Fair Games
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María Magdalena Gea; Luis Armando Hernández-Solís; Carmen Batanero; Rocío Álvarez-Arroyo – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2023
This paper analyzes the relationship between proportional reasoning and understanding fair games in Costa Rican students. We conducted a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the answers to six items on comparing ratios of increasing difficulty level and another item on prize estimation in a fair game. We describe the strategies employed and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Statistics Education
SATs, Sets and Allegations of Bias: The Allocation of 11-Year-Old Students to Mathematics Sets in Some English Schools in 2015. A Response to Connolly et al., 2019
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Gomm, Roger – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
This is a methodological critique of research by the Best Practice in Grouping Students (BPGS) project claiming teacher bias in allocating students to first-year secondary school mathematics teaching sets ("British Educational Research Journal," 45(4), 873-897 [EJ1223692]). The research assumes that bias could be shown by non-random…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Secondary School Students, Mathematics Tests
Using Statistics to Explore Cross-Curricular and Social Issues Opportunities
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Day, Lorraine – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2013
The area of statistics is one in which teachers may be encouraged to make important links to other curriculum areas and social issues. Statistical literacy is a key component of being numerate and living as an informed citizen. The teaching of statistics provides an opportunity to inform and educate students about social issues and moral…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Statistics, Foreign Countries, Mathematics
Authentic Practices as Contexts for Learning to Draw Inferences beyond Correlated Data
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Dierdorp, Adri; Bakker, Arthur; Eijkelhof, Harrie; van Maanen, Jan – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2011
To support 11th-grade students' informal inferential reasoning, a teaching and learning strategy was designed based on authentic practices in which professionals use correlation or linear regression. These practices included identifying suitable physical training programmes, dyke monitoring, and the calibration of measurement instruments. The…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Abstract Reasoning, Grade 11, Secondary School Students
Analyzing Highway Speeding Data in the Statistics Classroom
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Laumakis, Paul – Mathematics Teacher, 2011
When taking mathematics courses, students will sometimes ask their recurring question, "When will I ever use this in real life?" Educators are often unable to provide a direct connection between what they are teaching in the classroom and a real-life application. However, when such an opportunity does arise, they should seize it and…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics, Mathematics Curriculum
The Relationship between STAR Math Score Gains and Academic Achievement in Math
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Churchwell, Don Wesley – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined the relationship between STAR Math gains and TCAP composite scores. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant relationship between STAR Math pretest and posttest gains over the course of the 2005-2006 academic year through the use of the STAR Math software program and TCAP math composite scores at…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Mathematics Achievement, Pretests Posttests, Computer Software