Statistical representations at an early age: an approach from the textbooks of Chile and Mexico

Abstract

This article presents the analysis of statistical representations, tabular and graphical, in textbooks for Pre-school and Basic Education (1st and 2nd grades) in Chile and Mexico, which correspond to four complete series from different publishers, two per country. For this purpose, by means of content analysis, the learning activities linked to the study of statistics are analyzed, identifying the type of representation involved, the task requested of the child, the level of reading promoted, the level of semiotic complexity, and the context of the learning activity situation. The results show the need to rethink textbook activities that focus on statistical representations, so as to enrich the teaching of statistics at these ages, through in situ experimentation of the data collection process and exploration linked to the statistical investigation cycle.

Statistical table; Statistical graph; Textbooks; Early childhood education; Primary education