This chapter reviews research on the learning of statistical inference, focusing in particular
on recent research on informal statistical inference. The chapter begins by arguing for the …

Histograms are widely used and appear easy to understand. Research nevertheless
indicates that students, teachers and researchers often misinterpret these graphical …

This chapter arose from the need to introduce researchers, including Master and PhD
students, to design-based research (DBR). In Sect. 16.1 we address key features of DBR …

Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev
Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and …

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an updated overview of digital technologies
relevant to statistics education, and to summarize what is currently known about how these …

Informal statistical inference (ISI) has been a frequent focus of recent research in statistics
education. Considering the role that context plays in develo** ISI calls into question the …

Big ideas in the mathematics curriculum for older school students, especially those that are
hard to learn and hard to teach, are covered in this book. It will be a first port of call for …

This chapter presents an overview of the Practice of Statistics focusing mainly on research at
the school level. After introducing several frameworks for the practice, research is …

The goal of this article is to introduce the topic of learning to reason from samples, which is
the focus of this special issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics on statistical reasoning …

We contribute to research on visualization as an epistemic learning tool by inquiring into the
didactical potential of having students visualize one phenomenon in accord with two …