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Download full textDanri H. Delport – Numeracy, 2022
A strong foundation in early number concepts is crucial for students' future success in statistics. Despite its importance in statistics, many first-year students struggle to comprehend the normal distribution due to a lack of basic number sense. Students get confused about the order and magnitude of negative z-scores on a standard normal curve or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Statistics Education, Number Concepts
Direct linkBansilal, Sarah – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
This study is an exploration of teachers' engagement with concepts embedded in the normal distribution. The participants were a group of 290 in-service teachers enrolled in a teacher development program. The research instrument was an assessment task that can be described as an "unknown percentage" problem, which required the application…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, Statistical Distributions, Teacher Education Programs
