Type:
Pages:
online
Year:
2008
Publisher:
Proceedings from the joint ICMI/IASE Study Statistics in School Mathematics.<br>Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education
URL:
http://www.ugr.es/~icmi/iase_study/Files/Contents.htm
Abstract:
In epistemological studies, two main interpretations of probabilities are the frequentist and the Bayesian. In this paper we first show that both interpretations are present in French Secondary schools, albeit the official curriculum only supports the frequentist approach. We then suggest a possible teaching situation to introduce teachers and students to the subjective-objective duality with some statistics training situations via the use of problem solving. We also give some characteristics and conditions useful to build situations fitted to this goal.
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