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Third-Grade Students Investigate and Represent Data

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Results of a collaborative project between two mathematics education faculty, a third-grade teacher, and her beginning third-grade students are presented. The purpose of this project was to collect information from these students as they thought through how to ask, collect, and then answer their own data-driven questions. These young students exhibited a growing understanding, sophistication, and comfort with the use and application of data and data terminology as they developed their strategies for collecting, analyzing, and presenting their results.

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  1. College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

    Linda Hutchison & Judith Ellsworth

  2. Thayer Elementary, Laramie, Wyoming

    Sharon Yovich

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Hutchison, L., Ellsworth, J. & Yovich, S. Third-Grade Students Investigate and Represent Data. Early Childhood Education Journal 27, 213–218 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ECEJ.0000003357.54177.91

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