Introducing Grade 3 Students to Digital Data Exploration

Author:
Daniel Frischemeier University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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Volume/Issue:
Volume 115: Issue 6
Page(s):
413–421
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2021.0264
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Grade(s) or Audience, Grades 3-5, Math Topic, Measurement, Measurement and Data, Probability/Data Analysis and Statistics, Distributions

Bar graphs are fundamental to display distributions of categorical variables in primary school. Here is an approach using TinkerPlots™ to create bar graphs on different representation levels in small and large data sets.

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© 2022 by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc.
Page Count:
9
Article Category:
Research Article
Print Publication Date:
01 Jun 2022
Online Publication Date:
Jun 2022
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