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Engaging Teachers and Students with Real Data: Benefits and Challenges

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Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education

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Using real data in statistics education provides significant benefits for both teachers and students. In this chapter, considerations faced by teachers when using real data are explored with regard to student engagement and learning, as well as potential pedagogical issues. To address these issues, suggestions for obtaining and using real data are offered, as is the description of a successful example of a primary data collection project – Census at School. The chapter concludes by considering the use of real data in the training of teachers, and extends the example of Census at School to explore Canadian professional development workshops for elementary teachers.

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    Jennifer Hall

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  1. Fac. Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain

    Carmen Batanero

  2. Dept. Counseling,, Educational Psychology &, Michigan State University, Erickson Hall 240, East Lansing, 48824, Michigan, USA

    Gail Burrill

  3. SiMERR National Centre, University of New England, Armidale, 2350, New South Wales, Australia

    Chris Reading

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Hall, J. (2011). Engaging Teachers and Students with Real Data: Benefits and Challenges. In: Batanero, C., Burrill, G., Reading, C. (eds) Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education. New ICMI Study Series, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1131-0_32

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