AN EMERGING HIERARCHY OF REASONING ABOUT DISTRIBUTION: FROM A VARIATION PERSPECTIVE5
AN EMERGING HIERARCHY OF REASONING ABOUT DISTRIBUTION: FROM A VARIATION PERSPECTIVE5

 
 
 Recent research into students’ reasoning about variation refers specifically to notions of distribution that emerge. This paper reports on research where written responses, from tertiary introductory statistics students, were coded according to the level of consideration of variation. A hierarchy of reasoning about distribution is proposed, based …