Quick search:

Who to     contact   Organizing Committees     Topic     Convenors People and contacts List of delegates    Our       sponsors

Conference   venue    Advice for  participants    Useful    information List of deadlines    Other    Brazilian conferences

Registration   details   Accommod-   ation     Local     tours

Conference   theme      Keynote       speakers       *  Main  *       * topics *    Contributed   papers     Posters   Special interest groups Special sessions Administrative meetings

Timetable outline Programme details Monday's programme Tuesday's programme Wednesday's programme Thursday's programme Friday's programme

Notes for participants and authors Guidelines for authors & organizers Announce-   ments

This paper is from Session 7E: Technology-intensive curricula and instruction

which comes under Topic 7: Technology in Statistics education             Full topic list

(Monday 3rd, 16:00-18:00)

Statistics visualization with dynamic geometry

Presenter

• José Alexandre Martins (Portugal)

Abstract

Students from this generation learn best by seeing. Nowadays, visualisation is extremely important to help young students to catch the real meaning of some concepts. Therefore, this paper explores the application of a dynamic geometry software (Cabri-Géomètre II) to illustrate basic statistical concepts (like mean, median and mode), their properties and graphical representation, in a way that allows the teacher to explore, discover and uncover those ideas that will get the messages to students and stimulate interactive work in the classroom. In this presentation a main goal is showing a way to approach statistics through the use of a computational tool, with emphasis in the visual exploration of statistical concepts and focus on the improvement of statistical literacy, reasoning and thinking.