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Where's your evidence? Challenging young students' equiprobability bias through argumentation
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Fielding-Wells, J, Where's your evidence? Challenging young students' equiprobability bias through argumentation, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, 13-18 July 2014, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, pp. 1-6. (2014) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
Students come to formal schooling with prior probabilistic conceptions developed through informal
experiential events. One such concept is that of chance outcomes being inherently equiprobable,
even when not the case. In the design-based research described here, a class of 3rd Grade students
was posed an inquiry problem embedded with non-equiprobable outcomes: What is the best
addition bingo card? Argumentation was employed as a pedagogic approach to challenging
students’ equiprobable beliefs, with students supported to develop an evidence-based argument in
response. Students initially experienced conflict with the realisation of unequal frequencies, then
developed representations to act as theoretical evidence. A shift from conceptualizing equiprobable
outcomes towards responses reflecting theoretical distribution was observed. This exploratory
research suggests potential for an evidentiary focus to challenge probabilistic conceptions.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | argumentation, probability, primary |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Curriculum and pedagogy |
Research Field: | Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Teaching and curriculum |
Objective Field: | Pedagogy |
UTAS Author: | Fielding-Wells, J (Dr Jill Wells) |
ID Code: | 94665 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2014-09-15 |
Last Modified: | 2018-04-05 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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