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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Statistically, Technologically, and Contextually Provocative Tasks: Supporting Teachers' Informal Inferential Reasoning
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Madden, Sandra R. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2011
Recent studies have highlighted the potential importance of informal inferential reasoning (IIR) in supporting learners' general statistical reasoning. This paper presents a framework based on a retrospective analysis of design research in the context of technology-rich statistical professional learning experiences for high school mathematics…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Abstract Reasoning, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Attributing Meanings to Representations of Data: The Case of Statistical Process Control
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Hoyles, Celia; Bakker, Arthur; Kent, Phillip; Noss, Richard – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2007
This article is concerned with the meanings that employees in industry attribute to representations of data and the contingencies of these meanings in context. Our primary concern is to more precisely characterize how the context of the industrial process is constitutive of the meaning of graphs of data derived from this process. We draw on data…
Descriptors: Employees, Ethnography, Graphs, Total Quality Management