Invention Activities Support Statistical Reasoning

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Carmen Petrick; Kenlan, Kris
Titel	Invention Activities Support Statistical Reasoning
Quelle	In: Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 21 (2016) 6, S.358-363 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0839
Schlagwörter	Mathematics Instruction; Middle School Students; Secondary School Mathematics; Statistical Analysis; Mathematics Skills; Mathematical Logic; Grade 6; Statistics; Problem Solving; Teaching Methods; Active Learning; Educational Games; Computer Games; Educational Technology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Statistische Analyse; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Mathematical logics; Mathematische Logik; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Statistik; Problemlösen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Aktives Lernen; Educational game; Lernspiel; Computer game; Computerspiel; Computerspiele; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	Students' experiences with statistics and data analysis in middle school are often limited to little more than making and interpreting graphs. Although students may develop fluency in statistical procedures and vocabulary, they frequently lack the skills necessary to apply statistical reasoning in situations other than clear-cut textbook examples. This led the authors, a classroom teacher and a university researcher, to redesign a twelve-day statistics unit to give their sixth-grade students opportunities to apply statistical reasoning to meaningful problems, make sense of messy data, deal with uncertainty, and interpret results within context. To guide their redesign, they turned to the GAISE Report, the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (Franklin et al. 2007), which proposes a framework for learning statistics as an investigative problem-solving process rather than as a set of disconnected formulas and graphs. This active process includes formulating questions, collecting data, choosing and applying appropriate methods of analysis, and interpreting results. In this article, Students investigate how well an online game helps them learn. (A bibliography is included.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01