Elementary school teachers’ understanding of the mean during ongoing professional training
This paper analyzes the open responses to a problem situation used in research on the mean with data containing outliers. The results reveal correct and incorrect perceptions and show that statistical notions regarding the context and representativeness of a data set are far removed from teacher tra...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa |
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| Online Access: | http://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/635 |
| Summary: | This paper analyzes the open responses to a problem situation used in research on the mean with data containing outliers. The results reveal correct and incorrect perceptions and show that statistical notions regarding the context and representativeness of a data set are far removed from teacher training. Elementary teacher educators could draw from these perceptions and help to improve them so that future teachers may gain a full understanding of the concept, which will give them the skills they need to teach statistics in schools. |
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| ISSN: | 1607-4041 |