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This paper is from Session 3H: Statistics learning with cases/projects

which comes under Topic 3: Statistics education at the post-secondary level             Full topic list

(Friday 7th, 14:00-15:30)

Assessing and educating preschool teachers on probability concepts in the classroom

Presenter

• Jenny Pange (Greece)

Abstract

This study refers to an experiment on teaching probabilities, conducted in Greece at preschools in Athens and Ioannina. The aim of this study was to assess teachers on how they introduced common statistical concepts to children throughout the academic year of 2004-2005. Moreover, this study presents a new didactical model on the way we tried to educate preschool teachers on how to introduce to preschool children probabilistic concepts that are not contained in the official national curriculum. The majority of the teachers agreed that the study was interesting and that their intentions were positive, but they lacked the ability and specification to include those concepts in their everyday class curriculum.