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Data Handling and Statistics Teaching and Learning

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Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education

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Over the past several decades, changes in perspective as to what constitute statistics and how statistics should be taught have occurred, which resulted in new content, pedagogy and technology, and extension of teaching to school level. At the same time, statistics education has emerged as a distinct discipline with its own research base, professional publications, and conferences. There seems to be a large measure of agreement on what content to emphasize in statistics education: exploring data (describing patterns and departures from patterns), sampling and experimentation (planning and conducting a study), anticipating patterns (exploring random phenomena using probability and simulation), and statistical inference (estimating population parameters and testing hypotheses) (Scheaffer 2001). Teaching and learning statistics can differ widely across countries due to cultural, pedagogical, and curricular differences and the availability of skilled teachers, resources, and...

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  1. University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave. Mount Carmel, 3498838, Haifa, Israel

    Dani Ben-Zvi

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  1. Department of Education, Centre for Mathematics Education, London South Bank University, London, UK

    Stephen Lerman

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Ben-Zvi, D. (2014). Data Handling and Statistics Teaching and Learning. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4978-8_41

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