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   (Thursday 6th, 10:30-12:30)

Development of statistics methods teaching in primary and secondary education (school)


Authors

Diana Rosana Kucukbeyaz, Mabel H Batto, Ernesto A Rosa

Presenters


Abstract

The Federal Law of Education in Argentina has included Statistics in Primary and Secondary School Mathematics, but the teachers were not able to explain the concepts simply enough for students to understand. Several educators groups included some points or chapters about Statistics in the Primary and Secondary School books trying to give different levels of students the principal concepts and examples of Statistics Methods. Now: How much success has there been? Do the students of Primary and Secondary School understand teachers’ ways of developing the techniques that they suggested? Are teachers and professors in charge of showing these techniques able to successfully develop those Statistics subjects included in the books? These are the questions examined by this project which seeks to determine whether the adopted methodology could be considered successful and whether teachers are able to transmit Statistics knowledge; and if not, to propose alternative contents, points of view and teaching methods.