Statistics in Early Childhood and Primary Education

Description

This compilation focuses on the theory and conceptualisation of statistics and probability in the early years and the development of young children’s (ages 3-10) understanding of data and chance. It provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge international research on the development of young learners’ reasoning about data and chance in formal, informal, and non-formal educational contexts. The authors share insights into young children’s statistical and probabilistic reasoning and provide early childhood educators and researchers with a wealth of illustrative examples, suggestions, and practical strategies on how to address the challenges arising from the introduction of statistical and probabilistic concepts in pre-school and school curricula. This collection will inform practices in research and teaching by providing a detailed account of current best practices, challenges, and issues, and of future trends and directions in early statistical and probabilistic learning worldwide. Further, it will contribute to future research and theory building by addressing theoretical, epistemological, and methodological considerations regarding the design of probability and statistics learning environments for young children. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Theorising Links Between Context and Structure to Introduce Powerful Statistical Ideas in the Early Years (Katie Makar)....Pages 3-20 Probabilistic Thinking and Young Children: Theory and Pedagogy (Zoi Nikiforidou)....Pages 21-34 Front Matter ....Pages 35-35 Emergent Reasoning About Uncertainty in Primary School Children with a Focus on Subjective Probability (Sibel Kazak, Aisling M. Leavy)....Pages 37-54 Variation and Expectation for Six-Year-Olds (Jane Watson)....Pages 55-73 The Impact of Culturally Responsive Teaching on Statistical and Probabilistic Learning of Elementary Children (Celi Espasandin Lopes, Dana Cox)....Pages 75-88 Inscriptional Capacities and Representations of Young Children Engaged in Data Collection During a Statistical Investigation (Aisling M. Leavy, Mairéad Hourigan)....Pages 89-107 Scaffolding Statistical Inquiries for Young Children (Jill Fielding-Wells)....Pages 109-127 How Kindergarten and Elementary School Students Understand the Concept of Classification (Gilda Guimarães, Izabella Oliveira)....Pages 129-146 Front Matter ....Pages 147-147 Unpacking Implicit Disagreements Among Early Childhood Standards for Statistics and Probability (Randall E. Groth)....Pages 149-162 Statistical Graphs in Spanish Textbooks and Diagnostic Tests for 6–8-Year-Old Children (Carmen Batanero, Pedro Arteaga, María M. Gea)....Pages 163-180 Front Matter ....Pages 181-181 Initiating Interest in Statistical Problems: The Role of Picture Story Books (Virginia Kinnear)....Pages 183-199 Teachers’ Reflection on Challenges for Teaching Probability in the Early Years (Efi Paparistodemou, Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris)....Pages 201-215 Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Instructional Sequence to Lead Primary School Students to Comparing Groups in Statistical Projects (Daniel Frischemeier)....Pages 217-238 Data Representations in Early Statistics: Data Sense, Meta-Representational Competence and Transnumeration (Soledad Estrella)....Pages 239-256 Supporting Young Children to Develop Combinatorial Reasoning (Lucía Zapata-Cardona)....Pages 257-272 Front Matter ....Pages 273-273 Integrating Games into the Early Statistics Classroom: Teachers’ Professional Development on Game-Enhanced Learning (Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Efi Paparistodemou, Loucas Tsouccas)....Pages 275-293 Young Children’s Statistical Literacy in Modelling with Data and Chance (Lyn D. English)....Pages 295-313