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DIDACTIC APPROACH ABOUT TEACHING STADISTICS.


Hello everyone!

Today, I will be focused on the teaching of statistics in Primary Education and the differences strategies that teachers can use in order to help young learners to understand effectively what they are estimating and calculating.
Firstly, statistics offers us a world view based on data. 
In other words, statistics is the research and data collection. Thanks for using statistics, people can gather, analyse and process information to transform our reality into numbers. 

 Moreover, it is a helpful tool which could help learners to learn and collect information about such a huge variety of fields which could also help them to acquire a more precise knowledge about everything that surrounds them.  

I consider that teachers should encourage and motivate children to investigate the different social problematics that are happening their daily lives which they are not aware of its existence with the purpose of developing reflexive and critical thinking. For this reason, it is important to propose different situations in which they have to gather information and transform all the data in a statistical form in which it helps them to study easily and consciously about the problem raised in class and let them to realise that the data which they collect is a tiny proportion of a huge population.

DIDACTIC ACTIVITY
I will share with you a practical activity which you can develop with your students in Primary Education. The activity would consist of gathering information about the different means of. Therefore, in order to develop the activity, the students will ask each other about what means of transport they usually to school and they will complete a survey, since when they finish collecting all the data, they will have to represent it in a bar chart.

Finally, I would like to say that this activity would be very rewarding for children because they have the opportunity to reflect and think critically about the care of the environment and what different solutions, they can propose in order to decrease the pollution of the planet.

An example of the bar char could like the following one:

Although there are other diagrams that children can learn to use for example: 

Line graphs or line diagrams: each point corresponds to one value of the data table.

Pictographs or pictograms: It is a diagram which uses images or symbols to show data for a quick understanding.


Pie charts: This diagram represents the frequencies (absolute or relative). A circle divided into sectors is used; Each data represents a fraction of the total.





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