Statistical Tables in Spanish Primary School Textbooks
Metadatos
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Gea Serrano, María Magdalena; Pallauta, Jocelyn D.; Batanero Bernabéu, Carmen; Valenzuela Ruiz, Silvia MaríaEditorial
MDPI
Materia
Statistics education research Statistical tables Textbook analysis Primary education
Date
2022-08-08Referencia bibliográfica
Gea, M.M... [et al.]. Statistical Tables in Spanish Primary School Textbooks. Mathematics 2022, 10, 2809. [https://doi.org/10.3390/math10152809]
Patrocinador
Instituto de Salud Carlos III; Spanish Government; European Commission PID2019-105601GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; Junta de Andalucia; European Commission FQM-126; scholarship ANID 72190280Résumé
Statistics is introduced in primary education in Spain, and its teaching is largely supported
by textbooks, which are freely provided to the children. In this research, we analyse the activities
based on statistical tables included in two complete collections of primary education mathematics
textbooks. These activities are classified according to the type of table, the data presented in them,
the activity requested from the student in relation to the table, and the data context, according to
those suggested in the PISA studies. Using content analysis, we found that tables of distribution
of a variable predominate, mainly with frequencies. The most frequent activity is the reading of
information from the table, while the personal context appears in the majority of the activities. This
analysis serves to highlight how the teaching of statistical tables is developed throughout primary
education and inform the teachers about relevant variables that should be considered in their teaching.