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Characterising and Developing Teachers’ Knowledge for Teaching Statistics with Technology

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Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education

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Developing the pedagogical expertise needed to effectively engage students in learning statistics with technology requires teachers to have a depth of knowledge about statistics, technological tools for exploring statistical ideas, and of pedagogical issues related to teaching and learning statistics with technology. In this chapter, a framework for a specialised knowledge that is called technological pedagogical statistical knowledge (TPSK) is presented and examples of how aspects of this type of knowledge may assist a teacher are provided. Implications for training teachers are described.

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The preparation of this manuscript was supported by the National Science Foundation (DUE 04-42319 and DUE 08-17253; Online: ptmt.fi.ncsu.edu).

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Lee, H.S., Hollebrands, K.F. (2011). Characterising and Developing Teachers’ Knowledge for Teaching Statistics with Technology. In: Batanero, C., Burrill, G., Reading, C. (eds) Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education. New ICMI Study Series, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1131-0_34

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