Middle Grades: Misconceptions in Statistical Thinking Academic Article

abstract

• A sample of 134 sixthgrade students who were using the Connected Mathematics curriculum were administered an openended item entitled, Vet Club (Balanced Assessment, 2000). This paper explores the role of misconceptions and nave conceptions in the acquisition of statistical thinking for middle grades students. Students exhibited misconceptions and nave conceptions regarding representing data graphically, interpreting the meaning of typicality, and plotting 0 above the xaxis.

authors

• Capraro, Mary
• Capraro, Robert

published proceedings

• SCHOOL SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

author list (cited authors)

• Capraro, M. M., Kulm, G., & Capraro, R. M.

citation count

• 26

complete list of authors

• Capraro, Mary Margaret||Kulm, Gerald||Capraro, Robert M

publication date

• April 2005

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• School Science and Mathematics  Journal

keywords

• 39 Education
• 3901 Curriculum And Pedagogy
• 3903 Education Systems

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2005.tb18156.x

start page

• 165

end page

• 174

volume

• 105

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-8594.2005.tb18156.x