Book:
Thinking and reasoning with data and chance: Sixty-eighth Yearbook.
Editors:
Burrill, G. F.
Type:
Category:
Pages:
171-184
Year:
2006
Publisher:
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Reston, VA.
Abstract:
This article describes a teaching study with fifth- and sixth-grade students in which they explored some of issues involved in critically examining data such as questioning the underlying assumptions. Students generated their own mathematical models as a way of understanding a real-life situation.
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