The purpose of this research is to investigate the knowledge of the 1st grade High School students relating to the basic concepts of Statistics that are taught in Elementary School in Greece and to determine the effect that teaching through activities has on their performance. This research, which is part of a broader research conducted by the Department of Primary Education of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, was realised at the prefectures of Imathia and Pieria. The research provided useful conclusions, such as that the majority of teachers use traditional approaches in their teaching of Statistics, that students have a fair knowledge of most of Statistics' concepts that are included in the Elementary School Curriculum, that major improvement of this knowledge is observed after a teaching approach through activities and that the performance of students who live in urban areas is better in comparison to the performance of those who live in rural areas.
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