8 questions
Teaching statistics in school is important because
It is useful for daily life
It links well to other disciplines
It is important for developing critical reasoning
All of the above
Pedagogical content knowledge refers to:
having a secure subject knowledge
being able to use specific strategies within a particular topic
being aware of children's prior learning
the creation of detailed lesson plans
Being statistically literate enables..
children's higher order thinking skills to be assessed
children to use a range of different graphs
effective deductions to be made from data
teachers to provide suitable resources for different tasks
Chick and Pearce identified that:
teachers did not focus enough on data interpreting skills
teachers generally had a positive attitude towards statistics
teachers' plans often lacked depth in statistics
teachers' content knowledge was limited
Based on Bloom's taxonomy, which words best link to synthesis:
adapt, construct, devise
defend, conclude, interpret
illustrate, examine, infer
predict, select, organise
The concept of affordances refers to:
the need to develop content knowledge
allowing time for children to discuss key concepts
affording children time to practise their statistical skills
learning opportunities that are inherent in a task
WHich of these are examples of continuous data?
rainfall over time
shoe sizes
height
how children travel to school
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If A = £1, B = £2, C = £3 etc, whose name is worth the most?
Georgina
Ashley
Merryn
Lauren