| Article ID: | iaor2016229 |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 8 |
| End Page Number: | 15 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Hourigan Mairad, Leavy Aisling |
| Keywords: | statistics: inference, sports |
As part of Japanese Lesson study research focusing on ‘comparing and describing likelihoods’, fifth grade elementary students used real‐world data in decision‐making. Sporting statistics facilitated opportunities for informal inference, where data were used to make and justify predictions.