This article will discuss the research currently underway at PUC-São Paulo that represents links between Mathematics Education and Statistics Education. We shall discuss how these two areas of knowledge are entwined, verifying the advantages and consequences of these inter-relationships. The National Curriculum Parameters, which specify the Mathematics curriculum for the Brazilian school system, require one block of study involving the discussion of the themes Statistics, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics. These themes are considered throughout the entire 11-year period of basic education (students begin school at age 7) and also in the University. Research related to this problem is beginning to emerge, focusing not only on pre-service or in-service education of teachers, but also related to the learning processes of students, or to research interventions involving both teachers and students.
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