Interviews with seven six-year-old children shed light on the emerging ideas related to four themes within the chance and data part of the mathematics curriculum: appreciation of uncertainty and variation, observing and creating representations, appreciating the need to count and conserve quantity, and using data for interpreting and predicting.
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