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Statistics and Probability in High School
Research in statistics and probability education has produced a variety of results
that would be useful for both secondary and high-school mathematics teachers and
the educators of these teachers. Although there are many good textbooks in
different countries that describe statistical ideas with a formalisation level adequate
for students, usually these textbooks are written in a sequential way so that the
different concepts and procedures are introduced in turn, with insufficient
connections between them and limited attention to students’ underlying intuitions.
There are, of course, excellent exceptions such as the books produced by the
Schools Council (1980) in Statistical Education Project in the 1980’s;; yet, even,
these textbooks do not include a detailed summary of research related to the
teaching of the concepts, which started to get shape only after the first International
Conference on Teaching Statistics in Sheffield in 1982.
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