J Watson, S Wright, N Fitzallen, B Kelly - Mathematics Education Research …, 2022 - Springer

Consolidating understanding of variation as part of STEM: experimenting with plant growth.

Stem education interventions

Fitzallen, Watson

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Excerpt

Integrated STEM activities are espoused as appropriate for enhancing student learning in relation to statistical concepts; however, a greater understanding of the way in which students' ideas about those concepts develop is needed to maximise the learning potential offered by engagement in STEM activities. For this study, plant growth was chosen as a topic from the Year 6 Australian Science Curriculum as an appropriate context to employ aspects of the four STEM disciplines to explore students' developing ideas about variation. Sixty-four …