Teacher Knowledge of and for Statistical Investigations

New ICMI Study Series

Volumn 14, Issue , 2011, Pages 259-270

  Burgess, Tim A ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Classroom Video; Exploratory Data Analysis; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Statistical Thinking; Teacher Knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 85067933496     PISSN: 13876872     EISSN: 22151745     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1131-0_26     Document Type: Chapter

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