Book:
Proceedings of the 25th Annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia: Mathematics education in the South Pacific, Auckland
Editors:
Barton, B., Irvin, K. C., Pfannkuch, M., & Thomas, M. J.
Type:
Category:
Volume:
2
Pages:
366-373
Year:
2002
Publisher:
MERGA, Sydney
Abstract:
Responses of 73 students to an interciew protocol based on selecting 10 lollies from a container with 50 red, 20 yellow, and 30 green are categorised with respect to centre and spread of numerial answers and to reasoning expressed in justification of the answers. Results are compared to earlier survey research and small-scale interview studies.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education