Context analysis of the statistical tasks proposed to study in books to high school

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https://doi.org/10.30612/tangram.v7i2.17807

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Book, Statistics, High School

Abstract

Books are a fundamental pillar in education, often mandatory in non-university education and a support for students and teachers. Books occupy an important place in the classroom, and their analysis can help to think about what happens within it in relation to how statistics is studied, what notions and types of tasks are prioritized, and which are left to a side. In this work, results of an exploratory, descriptive and interpretive research are reported. We investigate the contexts of the statistical tasks that are proposed to be studied in books for secondary education. The main results indicate that the largest proportion of the tasks in the books refer to an everyday context, where the source of the data is not indicated; and tasks that do not refer to any context are highlighted, reducing the study of statistics to the calculation of values.

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Sheila Solange Sagala, Colegio Manuel Belgrano en Eduardo Castex

Graduate in Mathematics Education from the National University of the Center of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Professor in Mathematics at the National University of La Pampa. Mathematics teacher at Eduardo Castex public secondary school, La Pampa. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa, Argentina.

Ana Rosa Corica, CONICET - UNCPBA - Núcleo de Investigación en Educación Matemática

Doctor in Educational Sciences from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. Graduate in Mathematics Education and Professor in Mathematics and Physics from the National University of the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires. Associate Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). Director of the Research Center in Mathematics Education (NIEM). Professor of the Chair of Didactics of Mathematics and Teaching Practice at the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the UNCPBA. Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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2024-07-11

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Sagala, S. S., & Corica, A. R. (2024). Context analysis of the statistical tasks proposed to study in books to high school. TANGRAM - Revista De Educação Matemática, 7(2), 02–22. https://doi.org/10.30612/tangram.v7i2.17807

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