%0 Journal Article
%T Elementary School Students¡¯ Intuitive Conceptions of Random Distribution
%A Sibel Kazak
%A Jere Confrey
%J International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education
%D 2007
%I Gokkusagi Ltd.
%X This research focuses on fourth-grade (9-year-old) students¡¯ informal and intuitive conceptions of probability and distribution revealed as they worked through a sequence of tasks. These tasks were designed to study students¡¯ spontaneous reasoning about distributions in different settings and their understanding of probability of various binomial random events that they explored with a set of physical chance mechanisms. The data were gathered from a pilot study with four students. We analyzed the interplay of reasoning about distribution and understanding of probability. The findings suggest that students¡¯ qualitative descriptions of distributions could be developed into the quantification of probabilities through reasoning about data in chance situations.
%K Statistics Education Research
%K Probability
%K Random Distribution
%K Elementary School
%K Student Intuitive Conceptions
%U http://www.iejme.com/032007/d7.pdf