ICME 8

Sevilla, Spain 1996

Information

• Introduction : Brian Phillips

Plenary Lecture By David S. Moore (USA)

• New pedagogy and new content: the case of statistics : presented by Brian Phillips

Topic Group 9: Statistics And Probability At The Secondary Level

• An International overview of data analysis within the mathematics curriculum : Susan Starkings
• Curriculum issues in United States Schools : Gail Burrill
• Data analysis in secondary education in Hong Kong - curriculum, examination and project : Shir-Ming Shen
• An Argentinian experience of statistics teaching for masters of high school : Teresita Teran
• Emerging issues for research on teaching and learning probability and statistics : Mike Shaughnessy
• Assessing students’ interpretations of data: Conceptual and pragmatic issues : Iddo Gal
• Teachers of Statistics - Needs and impediments : Anne Hawkins
• Technology and the teaching of statistics : Kay Lipson & Peter Jones
• An overview of the teaching of probability in secondary schools : Tibor Nemetz
• Statistical Independence - One concept or Two? : John Truran & Kathleen Truran
• A summary of chance and data research activities from PME 20 : Robert Peard
• FORUM “How statistics and probability can best be incorporated into the overall school program?” : Peter Holmes

Papers on Statistical Education given in WORKING GROUP 14: LINKING MATHEMATICS WITH OTHER SUBJECTS

• Teaching statistics to reluctant learners : Sue Gordon
• Bringing the real world into statistics? : Sharleen Forbes
• Student analysis of variables in a media context : Jane Watson & Jonathan Moritz
• Contributors’ Addresses :