Young Children’s Statistical Literacy in Modelling with Data and Chance

Abstract

This chapter reports on eight-year-old children’s responses to data and chance investigations designed to foster their statistical literacy. Explored through the lens of modelling with data, statistical literacy involves a number of processes common to both statistics and probability, with culmination in models from which conclusions and inferences can be drawn. Specifically, consideration is given to how the students identified variation, made informal inferences, created representations, and interpreted their models that displayed the outcomes from their investigations.