Conceptual difficulties with histograms: A review.

L.B.M.M. Boels; A. Bakker; P.H.M. Drijvers; Wim Van Dooren

Conceptual difficulties with histograms: A review.

L.B.M.M. Boels
, A. Bakker
, P.H.M. Drijvers
, Wim Van Dooren

KU Leuven

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Abstract

This one page paper describes four misinterpretations with histograms identified in the literature.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 41st PME Conference
Editors	B. Kaur, W.K. Ho, T.L. Toh, B.H. Choy
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	PME
Pages	172
Number of pages	1
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-11-3742-6
Publication status	Published - 19 Jul 2017

Keywords

histogram
misinterpretation
big idea in statistics
Didactics of mathematics

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