Description
Breakout Session: Using data and statistics to shape their worldJoanne Mulligan Macquarie University Sydney
A growing number of studies have shown that young children are capable of engaging in data exploration, forming representations and making inferences, an aspect of the curriculum often not considered fundamental to early numeracy. This session will illustrate examples of young children engaging in data exploration and developing ways of representing data they have collected themselves. Illustrations of children’s mathematical thinking will be linked to structured enquiry-based tasks, often integrated with science, that are based on recent studies in Australian classrooms. Investigations include Shoe Types, Our Pets, Ecology in the Schoolground; Growing Plants, Melting Ice, Exploring Temperature, Growing Chickens, Ecology in the School Ground, and Heating Up. Challenging students to develop their own methods of recording and interpreting data and drawing graphical representations, and discussing these with others provides opportunities for consensus building well beyond simple pictographs and categories. Young children can form many fundamental numerical concepts as well as emergent ideas about distribution, sampling, ordering and aggregating data, and inferential reasoning through data exploration.
| Period | 2024 |
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| Event title | Numeracy Summit (2nd : 2024): empowering learners to shape their world through numeracy |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Adelaide, Australia, South AustraliaShow on map |