Children's reasoning about samples in an inquiry-based learning environment

Book: 
Proceedings of the Seventh International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL-7)
Authors: 
Ben-Zvi, D., Makar, K., Bakker, A., & Aridor, K.
Editors: 
A. Bakker
Type: 
Conference Paper
Category: 
Research
Pages: 
1–12
Year: 
2011
Publisher: 
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Place: 
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Abstract: 

Research on informal statistical inference has so far attended little to developing students' reasoning about samples and sampling. This SRTL-7 pre-paper will prepare the ground for analyzing children’s reasoning about sampling when making informal statistical inferences in a collaborative, project- and inquirybased learning environment. Using data from a design experiment in Israeli Grade 5 (age 11) classrooms, we focus on the emergent reasoning of two boys working with TinkerPlots on investigations with growing sample size. 
 

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