Using Eurostat data to teach statistics to prospective primary teachers: on how the context of the task may promote their social awareness
Francisca M. Ubilla,
Núria Gorgorió
Abstract:The concept of statistical sense provides an understanding of the goals of statistics education and helps to clarify the design of activities that promote the development of statistical literacy, reasoning and thinking. The new approaches to statistics in schools mean special attention must be paid to teacher training. This training should enable them to develop their statistical sense while awakening their social awareness. Drawing on the idea of the cycle of learning from data, we developed an activity based… Show more
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