Book:
Proceedings of the 20th annual meetings of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, People in Mathematics Education (MERGA)
Type:
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Pages:
171-178
Year:
1997
Publisher:
Rotorua, New Zealand
URL:
See compilation of Research Papers from 1997 ID # 2852 (Garfield & Truran)
Abstract:
This paper discusses some characteristic ways of reasoning within the discipline of statistics from the perspective of someone who is both a practising statstician and teaching statistician. It is conjectured that recognition of variation and critically evaluating and distinguishing the types of variation are essential components in the statistical reasoning process. Statistical thinking appears to be the interaction between the real situation and the stiatistical model. The role of variation in staistical thinking and the implications for teaching are also discussed.
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