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COLAISTE MHUIRE GAN SMAL MARY IMMACULATE COLLEGE ~ OLLSCOIL LUIMNIGH ~ ~ UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK ~ Looking in classrooms: Improving the teaching and learning of statistics in primary classrooms Aisling M. Leavy Mary Immaculate College -University of Limerick, Ireland Paper presented at IASE, Dublin, Ireland This research was funded by the National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning COLAISTE MHUIRE GAN SMAL MARY IMMACULATE COLLEGE The knowledge needed to teach statistics ~ OLLSCOIL LUIMNIGH ~ ~ UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK ~ • Subject matter understanding – In order to teach statistics, teachers must understand statistics themselves. Teacher knowledge impacts instruction and achievement. • Pedagogical understandings – How to engage learners, repertoire of teaching approaches, understandings of curriculum and classroom culture • Knowing about children including how children learn – Children’s interests, problematic content areas, listening and interpretation skills, how children learn, differences among learners • Habits and dispositions of statistical thinking – Processes of statistical thinking, reasoning about data, cycle of statistical investigation, EDA approaches etc. Teacher Knowledge Subject-matter knowledge (SMK) Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) (Shulman, 1986) (Shulman, 1986) common content specialized content knowledge of knowledge of knowledge (CCK) knowledge (SCK) content and content and (Ball et al., 2008) (Ball et al., 2008) students (KCS) teaching (KCT) (Ball et al., 2008) (Ball e