Making sense of statistical and probabilistic information in the media texts: Pre-service teachers' critical thinking processes

This study aimed to investigate the critical thinking processes that pre-service middle school mathematics teachers utilize when they intensely engaged with the media text based on statistical and probabilistic information. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with four pre-service middle school mathematics teachers in a public university. The findings of the study pointed out that pre-service middle school mathematics teachers progressed through different critical thinking processes, including comprehending, making connections, inferring ideas, critiquing, and self-reflecting about the information given in the newspaper article.