Book:
Proceedings of the 20th annual meetings of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, People in Mathematics Education (MERGA)
Editors:
Biddulph, F. & Carr, K.
Type:
Category:
Pages:
163-170
Year:
1997
Publisher:
University of Waikato Printery
URL:
See compilation of Research Papers from 1997 ID # 2852 (Garfield & Truran)
Abstract:
Graph comprehension is considered a basic skill in the curriculum, and essential fo rstatistical literacy in an information society. How do students interpret a graph in an authentic context? Are misleading features apparent? Responses to questions about a graph-based advertisement suggest that students commonly did not appreicate scaling difficulties, relate a grph as relecant int he context of a standard interpretation task , or apply numeracy skills for calculations based on data in graphical represtations.
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