This paper is from Session 2F: Perspectives on statistics education with a focus in primary schools
which comes under Topic 2: Statistics education at the school level
Paper 2F2 (Monday 9th, 16:00-17:30)
Ingenuity and challenges to incorporate statistical-inquiry process into statistics lessons in primary schools: The case of Japan
Presenter
- Kazuhiro Aoyama (Aichi University of Education, Japan)
Co-author
- Takashi Kawakami (Utsunomiya University, Japan)
Abstract
In the new Japanese curriculum of mathematics for primary and secondary schools, which will be implemented successively from 2020, statistics education has been strongly emphasized. One of the big targets of new statistics education in Japan is to incorporate statistical-inquiry process in usual lessons. This paper illustrates two Japanese lessons at primary level focusing on the statistical inquiry with different ways of collecting data: Firstly, a 3rd grade (aged 8–9) classroom using children’s data in their daily life, and secondary, a 5th grade (aged 10–11) classroom using data obtained from experiments. Based on these cases, we discuss ingenuity and challenges to incorporate the statistical-inquiry process into statistics lessons in primary school, in order to derive practical implications for future statistics education in Japan.