Book:
The Second International Conference on Teaching Statistics, 1986
Editors:
Davidson, R., & Swift, J.
Type:
Category:
Pages:
270-274
Year:
1986
Publisher:
The Second International Committee on Teaching Statistics
Place:
Victoria, B.C.
Abstract:
In the literature on education in probability and statistics, different issues of difficulty have been addressed rather independently by individuals from three different disciplines: college statistics faculty, specialists in pre-college mathematics education, and psychologists. The main contributions of the literature in these three disciplines are described, and a list of areas of difficulty students have in learning probability and statistics is provided, based on this literature. Implications are suggested for teaching and for future research.
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