The rapidly increasing capacity of technology to collect, organize, and manage data has
spurred changes in the practice of statistics: new methods of collecting data, large data sets …

Background Data literacy is increasingly important in today's data-driven world. Students
across many educational systems first formally learn about data in elementary school not as …

Competent data handling is crucial for active and informed participation in modern society.
To equip students for this challenge, data literacy must be strengthened throughout their K …

Much of the mathematics that children experience in school neglect the skills increasingly
needed for citizenship, particularly the power of complex data to investigate and make sense …

Fifth-grade students applied quantitative reasoning in exploring the flow times of three
simulated lavas of different viscosities down the slope of a hand-made volcano. After …

In this paper, we develop a personal synthesis of the most outstanding research on the
teaching and learning of probability in the past years. We conducted a systematic search to …

In this exploratory descriptive study, changes in one cohort's responses to an authentic
statistical investigation at the commencement of years 3 and 4 were analysed. Forty-four …

As data are 'numbers with context'(Cobb & Moore, 1997), contextual knowledge plays a
prominent role in dealing with statistics. While insights about a specific context can further …

Zusammenfassung Die Leitidee Daten und Zufall (Stochastik) wird unter drei Perspektiven
diskutiert: fachlich-epistemologische Aspekte, empirische Forschungen sowie theoretisch …

In this paper we analyze the algebraization levels involved in the mathematical activity
linked to statistical tables in a sample of 18 Spanish secondary school textbooks (12–15 …