Using the Practice of Statistics to Design Students’ Experiences in STEM Education
2020
Incorporating STEM activities into the primary curriculum remains a challenge
for teachers who do not have content knowledge and pedagogical expertise in
all four STEM disciplines. It is, therefore, important research explores potential
solutions to make STEM education accessible for all and sustainable for teachers.
This chapter showcases STEM learning activities developed for a research
project that was investigating the way in which students develop understanding
of modelling with data within STEM contexts. The longitudinal study followed
students as they progressed from Year 3 to Year 6. An aim of the project
was to develop learning activities that addressed STEM outcomes whilst also
putting the emphasis on developing understanding of the big ideas of statistics
that included: variation, expectation, distribution, randomness, and informal
inference. This chapter showcases the type of STEM learning activities that can
transform learning by fostering the development of the "practice of statistics"
within meaningful STEM contexts.
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