Early Mathematics Learning and Development

Aisling Leavy
Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris
Efi Paparistodemou Editors

Statistics in
Early Childhood
and Primary
Education
Supporting Early Statistical and
ProbabilisticThinking

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Part II Learning Statistics and Probabibty

3 Emergent Reasoning About Uncertainty in Primary School
Children with a Focus on Subjective Probabibty............................ 37
Sibel Kazak and Aisling M. Leavy
4 Variation and Expectation for Six-Year-Olds.................................. 55
Jane Watson
5 The Impact of Culturaby Responsive Teaching on Statistical
and Probabiüstic Learning of Elementary Children....................... 75
Celi Espasandin Lopes and Dana Cox
^ Inscriptional Capacities and Representations of Young
Children Engaged in Data Collection Düring a Statistical
Investigation....................................................................................... 89
Aisling M. Leavy and Mairead Hourigan
^ Scaffolding Statistical Inquiries for Young Children....................... 109
JiU Fielding-Wells
How Kindergarten and Elementary School Students
nderstand the Concept of Classification........................................ 129
•Ida Guimaräes and Izabella Oliveira

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Part III Teaching Statistics and Probability: Curriculum Issues

9 Unpacking Implidt Disagreements Among Early Childhood -Pcirt X
Standards for Statistics and Probability.......................................... 149 Theory and Conceptualisation
Randall E. Groth
of Statistics and Probability
10 Statistical Graphs in Spanish Textbooks and Diagnostic
Tests for 6-8-Year-Old ChUdren....................................................... 163 in the Early Years
Carmen Batanero, Pedro Arteaga and Maria M. Gea

Part IV Teaching Statistics and Probability: Tasks and Materials

11 Initiating Interest in Statistical Problems: The Role
of Picture Story Books...................................................................... 183
Virginia Kinnear
12 Teachers’ Reflection on Challenges for Teaching Probabibty
in the Early Years............................................................................... 201
Eli Paparistodemou and Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris
13 Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Instructional
Sequence to Lead Primary School Students to Comparing
Groups in Statistical Projects........................................................... 217
Daniel Frischemeier
14 Data Representations in Early Statistics: Data Sense,
Meta-Representational Competence andTransnumeration.............. 239
Soledad Estrella
15 Supporting Young Children to Develop Combinatorial
Reasoning........................................................................................... 257
Lucia Zapata-Cardona

Part V Teaching Statistics and Probability: Modelling

16 Integrating Games into the Early Statistics Classroom: Teachers’
Professional Developmenton Game-Enhanced Learning................ 275
Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Eli Paparistodemou
and Loucas Tsouccas
17 Young Children’s Statistical Literacy in Modelling with Data
and Chance......................................................................................... 295
Lyn D. English