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http://dx.doi.org/10.7468/mathedu.2019.58.1.139

How middle-school mathematics textbooks of Korea and the US support to develop students' statistical reasoning  

Lee, Sunjung (Graduate School of Education, Sogang University)
Kim, Gooyeon (Sogang University)
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The Mathematical Education / v.58, no.1, 2019 , pp. 139-160 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study attempts to examine statistical tasks in the middle-school mathematics textbooks of Korea and Connected Mathematics 3 [CMP] of the US in terms of an opportunity-to-learn for statistical reasoning. We utilized an analytical framework consisting of types of context, statistical reasoning level, cognitive demand of the tasks, and types of student response. The findings from the task analysis suggested that Korean textbooks focused on finding answers by applying previously learned algorithms or formulas and thus provided students with very limited opportunities to experience statistical reasoning. Also, the results proposed that the mathematical tasks in statistics unit of CMP3 offer more essential and complex tasks that promote students' conceptual understanding of various statistical ideas and statistical reasoning in a meaningful way.
Keywords
textbook analysis; statistics; middle-school level; statistical reasoning; opportunity-to-learn;
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