Research on Reasoning with Data and Statistical Thinking: International Perspectives

Gail Burrill, Michigan State University, past president of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), ASA fellow and elected member of ISI, chaired IASE program committees and International Congress in Mathematical Education (ICME) Topic Study Groups, was a member of the International Program Committee for ICME-12 and received numerous grants to bring mathematics/ statistics educators from the US to ICMEs.Leandro de Oliveria Souza is a professor at Federal University of Uberlândia; participates in research groups for probability and statistics teaching, technology, statistical education, teacher training and Modeling in Mathematics Education; is a member of the National Executive Board of the Brazilian Society of Mathematical Education, has numerous publications; and served on several editorial boards. Enriqueta Reston, University of San Carlos, was Vice President for the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), chaired IASEcommittees and ICME 14 Topic Study Group on Teaching and Learning Statistics, is an Elected Member  of the International Statistical Institute and on the Board of Directors: Philippine Statistical Association- Central Visayas Chapter, Mathematics Society of the Philippines – Cebu Chapter.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Statistics Education Across the World.- Chapter 2. An International Look at the Status of Statistics Education.- Chapter 3. Perspectives on  Statistics Education in Seven Countries.- Chapter 4. The Brazilian National Curricular Guidance and Statistics Education.- Chapter 5. Statistics and Probability Education in Germany.- Chapter 6. New Zealand Statistics Curriculum.- Chapter 7. Statistics Education in the Philippines: Curricular Context and Challenges of Implementation.- Chapter 8. Statistics and Probability in the Curriculum in South Africa.- Chapter 9. Statistics in the School Level in Turkey.- Chapter 10. United States Statistics Curriculum.-Part II. Data and Young Learners.- Chapter 11.- Elementary Students’ Responses to Quantitative Data.- Chapter 12. Reading and Interpreting Distributions of Numerical Data in Primary School.- Chapter 13.Young Learners Experiencing the World through Data Modeling.- Part III. Data and Simulation to Support Understanding.- Chapter 14. Investigating Mathematics Teacher Educators' Conceptions and Criteria for an Informal Line of Best Fit.- Chapter 15. Introducing Density Histograms to Grades 10 and 12 Students: Design and Try Out of an Intervention Inspired by Embodied Instrumentation.- Chapter 16. Margin of Error: Connecting Chance to Plausible.- Chapter 17. The Mystery of the Black Box: An Experience of Informal Inferential Reasoning.- Part IV.  Data and Society.- Chapter 18. Critical Citizenship in Statistics Teacher Education.- Chapter 19. Toward Statistical Literacy to Critically Approach Big Data in Mathematics Education.- Chapter 20. Interdisciplinary Data Workshops: Combining Statistical Consultancy Training with Practitioner Data Literacy.- Part V. Statistical Learning, Reasoning and Attitudes.- Chapter 21. Distinctive Aspects of Reasoning in Statistics and Mathematics: Implications for Classroom Arguments.- Chapter 22. Teaching Statistics and Sustainable Learning.- Chapter23. How Students’ Statistics Beliefs Influence their Attitudes.- Chapter 24. Algebraization Levels of Statistical Tables in Secondary Textbooks.