This paper addresses the initial components of an activity in which 4th-grade students engaged in meta-questioning as they created and refined survey questions with the aim of comparing life across two Australian cities. We propose the term, meta-questioning, as a core, underrepresented feature of statistical investigations in the primary school. We report on the nature of the students’ initial posed questions and their subsequent refined questions, students’ justifications for their question refinements, their anticipated data collection, and developments in their question posing skills. Results include a hierarchy of question types posed by the students and how their question types changed with subsequent refinements.
Funding
Australian Research Council
History
Publication title
Proceedings of the 40th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)
Volume
2017
Editors
A Downton, S Livy, J Hall
Pagination
229-236
ISBN
978-1-920846-30-5
Department/School
Faculty of Education
Publisher
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Place of publication
Australia
Event title
40th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA),
Event Venue
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date of Event (Start Date)
2017-07-02
Date of Event (End Date)
2017-07-07
Rights statement
Copyright 2017 Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) Incorporated
Repository Status
Restricted
Socio-economic Objectives
Other education and training not elsewhere classified