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This paper describes recent work carried out by the Schools Council Project on Statistical Education. The Project advocates a problem-solving approach towards the teaching of statistics in secondary schools (11–16 years age range). It sees statistics as an interdisciplinary subject primarily concerned with data. The article illustrates these important aspects with teaching materials which have been developed and tested extensively in a variety of schools. Finally an evaluation and assessment of the project's work is presented.
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KapadiaR.: 1979, ‘Faulty questions’, Mathematics in School 8, 18–19.
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The author worked with the project for three and a half years and has made extensive use of working documents produced by the project team in preparing this paper. He would particularly like to thank the director, Mr. Peter Holmes, for permitting the use of these documents. The author was formerly at the School Council Project on Statistical Education, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England and is now at the Mathematics Department, Polytechnic of the South Bank, London SE1 0AA, England.
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Kapadia, R. Developments in statistical education. Educational Studies in Mathematics 11, 443–461 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00231216
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00231216