Sentido gráfico y su importancia en la comprensión de la información sobre la COVID

  1. Carmen Batanero 1
  2. José Antonio Garzón-Guerrero 1
  3. Silvia M. Valenzuela-Ruiz 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada, España
Journal:
Paradigma

ISSN: 1011-2251

Year of publication: 2021

Issue: 1

Type: Article

DOI: 10.37618/PARADIGMA.1011-2251.2021.P206-224.ID996 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

In this paper, we start from the idea of statistical sense, as the union of statistical literacy and reasoning, and particularize this idea for the case of statistical graphs, in describing its components. We argue the special importance of the graph sense in the current situation marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the need to interpret statistical information presented and updated daily in various kinds of graphs in the media, to understand and collaborate with the decisions of health and political authorities. Some examples of graphs associated with COVID presented in the media are analyzed to clarify the components of graphic sense, in highlighting their dynamic and multivariate characteristics, not taken into account in the graphs included in the curricular guidelines. The need for better teaching of graphs and the usefulness of statistical graphs taken from the media to motivate students and reinforce their graphical sense is concluded.

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