Elementary School Students’ Intuitive Conceptions of Random Distribution

dc.creator	Sibel Kazak
dc.creator	Jere Confrey
dc.date	2007-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:36:19Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:36:19Z
dc.identifier	1306-3030
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/7fa4f6f0a3814f21af28d11f0b1c2dba
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/31385
dc.description	This research focuses on fourth-grade (9-year-old) students’ informal and intuitive conceptions of probability and distribution revealed as they worked through a sequence of tasks. These tasks were designed to study students’ spontaneous reasoning about distributions in different settings and their understanding of probability of various binomial random events that they explored with a set of physical chance mechanisms. The data were gathered from a pilot study with four students. We analyzed the interplay of reasoning about distribution and understanding of probability. The findings suggest that students’ qualitative descriptions of distributions could be developed into the quantification of probabilities through reasoning about data in chance situations.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Gokkusagi Ltd.
dc.relation	http://www.iejme.com/032007/d7.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1306-3030
dc.source	International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 227-244 (2007)
dc.subject	Statistics Education Research
dc.subject	Probability
dc.subject	Random Distribution
dc.subject	Elementary School
dc.subject	Student Intuitive Conceptions
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	DOAJ:Mathematics
dc.subject	DOAJ:Mathematics and Statistics
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	DOAJ:Mathematics
dc.subject	DOAJ:Mathematics and Statistics
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.title	Elementary School Students’ Intuitive Conceptions of Random Distribution
dc.type	article