This compilation focuses on the theory and conceptualisation of statistics and probability in the early years and the development of young children¿s (ages 3-10) understanding of data and chance. It provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge international research on the development of young learners¿ reasoning about data and chance in formal, informal, and non-formal educational contexts. The authors share insights into young children¿s statistical and probabilistic reasoning and provide early childhood educators and researchers with a wealth of illustrative examples, suggestions, and practical strategies on how to address the challenges arising from the introduction of statistical and probabilistic concepts in pre-school and school curricula.

Provides a comprehensive overview of international research work on probability and statistics for young learners

Part I Theory and conceptualisation of statistics and probability in the early years.- 1 Theorising links between context and structure to introduce powerful statistical ideas in the early years.- 2 Probabilistic thinking and young children: Theory and pedagogy.- Part II Learning statistics and probability.- 3 Emergent reasoning about uncertainty in primary school children with a focus on subjectivity probability.- 4 Variation and expectation for six-year-olds.- 5 The impact of culturally responsive teaching on statistical and probabilistic learning of elementary children.- 6 Inscriptional capactities and representations of young children engaged in data collection during a statistical investigation.- 7 Scaffolding statistical inquiries for young children.- 8 How kindergarten and elementary school students understanding the concept of classification.- Part III Teaching statistics and probability: Curriculum issues.- 9 Unpacking implicit disagreements among early childhood standards forstatistics and probability.- 10 Statistical graphs in Spanish textbooks and diagnostic tests for 6-8 year-old children.- Part IV Teaching statistics and probability: Tasks and materials.- 11 Initiating interest in statistical problems: The role of picture story books.- 12 Teachers' reflections on challenges for teaching probability in the early years.- 13 Design, implementation and evaluation of an instructional sequence to lead primary school students to comparing groups in statistical projects.- 14 Data representations in early statistics: Data sense, meta-representational competence and transnumeration.- 15 Supporting young children to develop combinatorial reasoning.- Part V Teaching statistics and probability: Modelling.- 16 Integrating games into the early statistics classroom: Teacher professional development on game-enhanced learning.- 17 Young children's statistical literacy in modelling with data and chance.