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Publication Date: 2016
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What Do the Stats Tell Us? Engaging Elementary Children in Probabilistic Reasoning Based on Data Analysis
Hourigan, Mairéad; Leavy, Aisling
Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, v38 n1 p8-15 Spr 2016
As part of Japanese Lesson study research focusing on "comparing and describing likelihoods", fifth grade elementary students used real-world data in decision-making. Sporting statistics facilitated opportunities for informal inference, where data were used to make and justify predictions.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Statistics, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Inferences, Prediction
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Japan
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