The math content as it emerges from Year 3 students' use of visual representations

Theodosia Prodromou

Abstract

This paper analyses the responses of Grade 1-2 students to a task requiring them to reason about the data generated from a computer game simulation and create pictographs of the number of different variables. Students' responses have provided strong indication of how they associated chance with data and made inferences from the graphical representation of the data. Findings show how students responded to the variability in the representations and made predictions on the basis of graphical representations, even as early as when pictographs were used.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	MANSW Annual Conference 2013: Mathematical Association of New South Wales Annual Conference - Terrigal, Australia Duration: 13 Sept 2013 → 15 Sept 2013

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Conference	MANSW Annual Conference 2013: Mathematical Association of New South Wales Annual Conference
City	Terrigal, Australia
Period	13/09/13 → 15/09/13

Keywords

Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy
Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
Education

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