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Date Published: 29/08/2020
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54607/hcmue.js.17.8.2822(2020)
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Vol. 17 No. 8 (2020)
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Lê , T. H. C. (2020). DISPERSAL PARAMETER IN STATISTICS: KNOWLEDGE OF MATHEMATICS STUDENT TEACHERS AND SOME ISSUES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION. HCMUE Journal of Science, 17(8), 1382. https://doi.org/10.54607/hcmue.js.17.8.2822(2020)

DISPERSAL PARAMETER IN STATISTICS: KNOWLEDGE OF MATHEMATICS STUDENT TEACHERS AND SOME ISSUES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION

Thị Hoài Châu Lê

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The research presented in this article aims to explore the knowledge of mathematics student teachers on the parameters of dispersion. Twenty five mathematics student teachers were exposed to the situations which require the mastery of the meaning of these parameters. The development of the situations proposed to the students was based on certain works dealing with learning difficulties for the understanding and the use of the dispersion parameters. The behaviors of the students observed show that the teaching of statistics which tends to focus on mechanically applying calculation techniques possibly contributes to the observed limited understanding of the meaning of parameters and the non-mastery of the languages of statistics (the histograms in this case). The results suggest the necessity to review the training of mathematics teachers in statistics.

 

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teacher knowledge, dispersion parameters, mean absolute deviation, standard deviation

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