| Description |
viii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 28cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
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4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Principles and standards for school mathematics navigations series |
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Principles and standards for school mathematics navigations series.
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| Contents |
Ch.1. From Questions to Method: Beginning the Process -- Questions, Please? -- What's My Method? -- Ch.2. Using Data Analysis Methods -- Long Jump -- How Many Stars Can You Draw in One Minute? -- Do You Get Enough Sleep? -- Exploring the Mean -- Ch.3. Inferences and Predictions -- The Foot, the Whole Foot, and Nothing but the Foot! -- Can You Catch Up? -- Chores: How Many Hours a Week Are Typical? -- Ch.4. What Are the Chances? -- How Likely Is It to Land in the Trash Can? -- Is There Such a Thing as a Lucky Coin? -- Spin City -- Is It Fair? -- Looking Back and Looking Ahead -- Appendix. Blackline Masters and Solutions -- References |
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Contents of CD-ROM: Introduction -- Table of Standards and Expectations, Data Analysis and Probability, Pre-K7F 1312 -- Applet Activities: Probability Games; Preset Spinner; Make Your Own Spinner; Dice Sums; Coin Toss -- Blackline Masters and Templates -- Readings from Publications of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics -- Problem Solving: Dealing with Data in the Elementary School / Harry Bohan, Beverly Irby, and Dolly Vogel -- Using Probability Experiments to Foster Discourse / Thomas G. Edwards and Sarah M. Hensien -- Making Charts: Do Your Students Really Understand the Data? / Louis Feicht -- Teaching Statistics: What's Average? / Susan N. Friel -- Daily Activities for Data Analysis / Chris Hitch and Georganna Armstrong -- Understanding Students' Probabilistic Reasoning / Graham A. Jones, Carol A. Thornton, Cynthia W. Langrall, and James E. Tarr -- The Lunch-Wheel Spin / Julia A. Mason and Graham A. Jones -- Children's Concepts of Average and Representativeness / Jan Mokros and Susan J. Russell -- Teaching Mathematics with Technology: Statistics and Graphing / Janet Parker and Connie C. Widner -- What Do Children Understand about Average? / Susan J. Russell and Jan Mokros -- Exploring Probability through an Evens-Odds Dice Game / Lynda R. Wiest and Robert J. Quinn -- Mean and Median: Are They Really So Easy? / Judith S. Zawojewski and J. Michael Shaughnessy |
| Summary |
Discusses the development of data and probability concepts and shows teachers how to engage students in exploring and extending these concepts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 120) |
| Audience |
Primary school resource |
| Notes |
System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh and Windows compatible. Recommended browser is Internet Explorer 5. Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 or above is required for viewing PDFs |
| Subject |
Probabilities -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Standards -- United States.
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Mathematical statistics -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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Probabilities -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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Probabilities -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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Mathematical statistics -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises.
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| Author |
Cuevas, Gilbert J.
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Chapin, Suzanne H.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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| LC no. |
2003271231 |
| ISBN |
0873535219 |
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