Early childhood corner: The Power of Representation: Graphs and Glyphs in Data Analysis Lessons for Young Learners

Abstract

Skillful teachers capitalize on youngsters' proclivity for exploration by implementing lessons that allow for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and discussing data—including constructing graphs and glyphs (picture graphs) with concrete materials. Such opportunities can strengthen children's abilities to develop inferences, make predictions, and recognize patterns. In the past, data analysis was often neglected in early childhood mathematics curriculum. However, educators now recognize that children's natural inquisitiveness about their experiences and about the world in which they live can stimulate them to raise a variety of questions that lead to data analysis: What kind? How much? Which of these? How many?

Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin İstatistiksel Grafikleri Okuma ve Yorumlama Düzeylerinin İncelenmesi

“…Graphs are an important part of the objectives of the statistics education in the school mathematics curriculum. Graphs are one of the representations that summarize the data briefly and visually (Lacefield, 2009). Graphs usually appear in books and educational software and they help students understand both science and social science data (Shah and Hoeffner, 2002).…”

“…İstatistiksel grafikler yaşamın birçok alanında yer aldığı için, toplumda önemli bir rol oynamaktadır (González, Espinel ve Ainley, 2011). Grafikler, verileri kısa ve öz olarak aynı zamanda görsel olarak özetleyen temsillerden biridir (Lacefield, 2009). Grafikler, gazete, dergi ve reklamlarda bulunan metin materyallerini açıklamak, düzenlemek ve özetlemek için yardımcı bir araçtır (Curcio, 1981).…”