Readiness of teachers on Northern Ireland to teach data handling

Book: 
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Teaching Statistics
Authors: 
Greer, B., & Ritson, R.
Editors: 
The National Organizing Committee of the ICOTS 4
Type: 
Proceedings
Category: 
Research
Volume: 
1
Pages: 
49-56
Year: 
1994
Publisher: 
The National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics
Place: 
Rabat, Morocco
Abstract: 

Data handling has recently been introduced on the United Kingdom as a major component of the mainstream school mathematics curriculum. A survey of teachers in Northern Ireland showed that they are generally not well prepared to teach the new material, particularly probability.

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