Abstract
The role of context is discussed in the setting of an extended curriculum development and research project in primary school designed to develop and study students' reasoning about statisticalinference. Qualitative research methods are used to critically dissect the roles of context in theemergence of sixth grade students' informal inferential reasoning (IIR). Context is examined as part of a complex network of themes, such as inquiry, norms, knowledge of statistical concepts andtools, beliefs and expectations, and meaning making and explanations. The paper analyzes anddiscusses these themes and the role context plays in the emerging inferential reasoning of these students.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July 2010) |
| Editors | C. Reading |
| Place of Publication | Voorburg |
| Publisher | International Statistical Institute |
| State | Published - 2010 |