The purpose of this study was to explore the ways of improving the activities related to statistics in kindergarten, which has been practiced since the fifth education curriculum. To accomplish this purpose, first, this paper examined both the nature ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways of improving the activities related to statistics in kindergarten, which has been practiced since the fifth education curriculum. To accomplish this purpose, first, this paper examined both the nature and the scope of statistics as a school subject. Second, this study reviewed the research literatures related to statistics education under a few theoretical view points, such as the developmental, the psychological, and the educational view points. And then, this study has explored proper directions for the improvement of the ongoing activities related to statistics in kindergarten by suggesting the conceptual model of teaching and learning statistics which could develope sound intuitions of probability and statistical thinking as a habit. This paper also presents the real examples of activities, which were conducted with five year old children on the base of the suggested conceptual model of teaching and learning statistics.