INTRODUCING STATISTICS AT SCHOOL LEVEL IN SOUTH AFRICA<br>THE CRUCIAL ROLE PLAYED BY THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE IN TRAINING IN-SERVICE TEACHERS

Authors: 
Delia North and Jackie Scheiber
Type: 
Proceedings
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: 

A new school curriculum, with substantial statistics content at all levels, is currently being phased in throughout South Africa. This paper focuses on a government roll-out plan that aims to upgrade the knowledge of in-service teachers in order to empower them to successfully engage with the statistics content of the new school syllabus.

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