Introducing box and whisker plots

Authors: 
Carr, J., & Begg, A.
Type: 
Conference Paper
Category: 
Research
Pages: 
12-Jan
Year: 
1994
Publisher: 
Fourth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, July
Place: 
Marrakech, Morocco
Abstract: 

Box and whisker plots were introduced to a group of eight students for enrichment and foolow-up sessions as part of a project looking at the ideas that 11 and 12-year-olds have about central tendency and dispersion. This paper reports some tentative findings about the teaching and learning of box and whisker plots to middle-school children.

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