Normalising: Children's Activity to Construct Meanings for Trend

Normalising: Children's Activity to Construct Meanings for Trend

This paper looks back over a number of exploratory studies which have researched young children's construction of meanings for graphs, produced from data entered in spreadsheets. In this paper we discuss children's use of normalising, an activity in which children 'correct' data...

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Veröffentlicht in:Educational studies in mathematics 2001-01, Vol.45 (1/3), p.131-146
Hauptverfasser: Ainley, Janet, Pratt, Dave, Nardi, Elena
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Children
Computer Uses in Education
Data Analysis
Eggs
Graph theory
Helicopters
Learning
Line graphs
Mathematical models
Mathematics Education
Middle Schools
Secondary Education
Spreadsheets
Statistical Analysis
Technology
Thinking Skills
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Zusammenfassung:This paper looks back over a number of exploratory studies which have researched young children's construction of meanings for graphs, produced from data entered in spreadsheets. In this paper we discuss children's use of normalising, an activity in which children 'correct' data towards some perceived norm. Through normalising, children construct meanings for trend in data and in graphs. We discuss how particular aspects of the pedagogical setting including task design encourage the use of normalising.
ISSN:0013-1954
1573-0816
DOI:10.1023/A:1013822512833