This is a session of Topic 6: Innovation and reform in teaching probability within statistics
(Tuesday 15th, 15:45-17:15)
Teachers’ awareness of conceptual connections between probability and statistics
Organizer
- Dionysia Bakogianni (Greece) : Session chair
Abstract
Various difficulties with probability concepts and misleading intuitions about random events can act as barrier in the learning of statistics. Mathematics teachers’ awareness of the connection between statistical and probability concepts, can improve the teaching and consequently the learning of statistics and of probability as well. In this session we concentrate on professional development and teacher education approaches that intertwine probability and statistics. The session is focused on empirical studies focusing on teachers’ awareness of probability concepts when teaching statistics and ways in which they try to develop students’ probabilistic intuition. Various views from elementary and secondary level would provoke discussion for the similarities and differences between the two levels.
Papers
| Paper | Title | Presenter / Co-author(s) |
| 6F1 | Teachers and students: from an intuitive approach to a rational evaluation of probability | Maria Pia Perelli D’Argenzio (Italy) Silio Rigatti-Luchini (Italy) |
| 6F2 | Challenges for learning about distributions in courses for future Mathematics teachers | Marcos Magalhães (Brazil) |
| 6F3 | Odds that don’t add up | Michael Fletcher (United Kingdom) |