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    Coordinating student learning and teacher activity – The case of Savannah: Motivating an understanding of representativeness through examination of distributions of data

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    Leavy, A. (2009) 'Coordinating student learning and teacher activity – The case of Savannah: Motivating an understanding of representativeness through examination of distributions of data.' Second National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education, 14th and 15th September, 2007.
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    2007
    Author
    Leavy, Aisling
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    Leavy, A. (2009) 'Coordinating student learning and teacher activity – The case of Savannah: Motivating an understanding of representativeness through examination of distributions of data.' Second National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education, 14th and 15th September, 2007.
    Abstract
    This research study investigated the measures chosen by five 4th to 8th grade students when selecting statistical measures to describe distributions of data. Over the course of eight weeks of instruction, individual teaching experiments were conducted to investigate the development of understanding of distribution. The results indicate that consideration of representativeness was a major factor that motivated modification of approaches to constructing indices of distributions. This paper outlines the case of a 4th grade student who participated in the study and narrates her journey as she grappled with increasingly complex statistical ideas relating to representativeness.
    Keywords
    Student
    Learning
    Teacher
    Activity
    Motivating
    Understanding
    Representativeness
    Examination
    Distributions
    Data
    Language (ISO 639-3)
    eng
    Publisher
    St. Patrick's College, Dublin
    License URI
    https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/institute_of_education/pdfs/mei2-proceedings.pdf
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10395/2645
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