TEACHING STATISTICAL GRAPHS THROUGH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW

Abstract

In Colombia's national education guidelines, it is proposed to articulate the five mathematical concepts with the five mathematical processes and the three contexts for teaching mathematics in schools, with the aim of training mathematically competent students who demonstrate this competence through conscious and reasonable decision-making in their environment. Random thinking and data systems provide a means of facilitating this articulate. This literature review article explores academic documents on teaching and learning to identify strategies or elements of the process of teaching statistics, more specifically statistical graphs, that have been successful in student learning. It provides a brief overview of the teaching of statistics and student-centered teaching strategies, finding that one of these strategies is project-based learning. In the search, review, and analysis of documents published in online academic journals, virtual university repositories, and open-access databases on learning statistical graphs under the project-based learning strategy, examples of application were found at all levels of education. The documents analyzed were divided into four categories according to how the project-based learning strategy is applied in the teaching of statistics. All of them include recommendations for teachers and administrators of educational institutions to analyze traditional methods of teaching statistics and try to turn classrooms into research laboratories that, through strategies such as project-based learning, promote the learning process of students.