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http://dx.doi.org/10.7468/jksmec.2020.23.3.135

The Effect of Average Unit Learning on the Knowledge of the Representative Value of 5th Grade Elementary School Students  

Moon, Eunhye (Graduate School of Korea National University of Education)
Lee, Kwangho (Korea National University of Education)
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Education of Primary School Mathematics / v.23, no.3, 2020 , pp. 135-156 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of average unit learning on the knowledge of the representative value of 5th grade elementary school students. In the information-oriented society, the ability to organize and summarize the data has become an essential resource. In the process of correctly analyzing statistical data and making reasonable decisions, the summary of the data plays an important role, and it is necessary to learn the concept of representative values in order to describe the center of the data in a series of numbers. For research, an informal knowledge type possessed by a fifth grade elementary school student with respect to a representative value before learning an average unit is examined and compared with the representative value after learning the average unit. A suggestion point for representative value guidance in school mathematics is provided while examining the change in knowledge with respect to the representative value. Seeing the informal types of elementary school students' representative values will help them learn how to formalize the concept of representative values in middle and high schools. It will give suggestions about the concept of representative values and the method of instruction that should be dealt with in elementary schools. The informal knowledge about the representative value can help with formal representative value that will be learned later. Therefore, This study's discussions on statistical learning of elementary school students are expected to present meaningful implications for statistical education.
Keywords
average; representative value; informal knowledge; mean; mode; median;
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