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Session Objectives
• Explore the distinction between mathematical thinking and
statistical thinking.
• Examine the development of the statistics and probability
content over grades 6 – 11.
• Introduce overarching themes that provide coherence in the
statistics and probability content across the grades.
• Illustrate development of statistical thinking across the grades
with a trajectory of lesson activities.
• Explore other dimensions in the development of statistical
thinking across the grades.
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Agenda
Mathematical Thinking
• Explain patterns
• Often a deterministic way of thinking
Statistical Thinking
• Search for patterns in the presence of variability
• Acknowledge role of chance variation (distinguish “signal” from
“noise”)
Statistical Thinking
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• Variability
• Learning from Data (The Investigative Process)
• Probability
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Variability
• Anticipating variability
• Describing variability
• Understanding variability
• Drawing conclusions in the presence of variability
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Probability
• Understanding probability
• Foundation for “ruling out chance”
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Agenda
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Grade 6: Focus on Steps 1 and 3 (for census data), Step 4 in an informal way
Grade 7: Continue with Step 1, adds Step 2 (selecting a sample) and Step 3 (for
sample data)
Grade 8: Focus on Step 3 in the context of relationships between two variables
Grade 9: Focus moves to Step 4 in an informal way
Grade 11: Formalizes Step 4.
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Agenda
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Grade 6 Examples
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Grade 7 Example
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Agenda
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Question of Interest:
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The reasoning:
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Let’s investigate:
If there were no treatment effect, what kind of
differences would be expected just by chance?
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If this process was repeated many times, we would have a sense of what
“chance differences” would look like if there is no treatment effect.
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Drawing conclusions:
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Tomato Example
Illustrates
1. The investigative process
2. The role of variability in decision
making
3. The link between statistics and
probability
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Thanks
Thank you for your attention and participation.
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