Readiness of teachers in Northern Ireland to teach data handling

Authors: 
Greer, B., & Ritson, R.
Type: 
Report
Category: 
Research
Publisher: 
Queen's University
Place: 
Belfast
Abstract: 

Data handling has recently been introduced in the United Kingdom as a major component of the mainstream school mathematics curriculum. A survey of teachers in Northern Ireland showed that they are generally not well prepared to teach new material, particularly probability.

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