Study and Research Paths for Statistics Teacher Education at Secondary School Level: An Exploratory Study

We present the design and implementation of an inquiry-based activity based on a general proposal of the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic called “study and research path for teacher education” (SRP-TE) as a tool to reflect, develop, analyze, and experience proposals for teaching statistics at lower secondary school. Our proposal of SRP-TE starts from a textbook activity based on a statistical graph about water distribution in Brazil and turns it into an open activity that fosters different dimensions of statistical work (searching, collecting, cleaning, organizing, and exploring data), including interdisciplinary interaction. After its implementation, when asked about the content inherent in the inquiry, pre-service teachers seem to disregard many dimensions of the statistical work, especially those related to data handling.