Part I Theory and conceptualisation of statistics and probability in the early years -- 1 Theorising links between context and structure to introduce powerful statistical ideas in the early years -- 2 Probabilistic thinking and young children: Theory and pedagogy -- Part II Learning statistics and probability -- 3 Emergent reasoning about uncertainty in primary school children with a focus on subjectivity probability -- 4 Variation and expectation for six-year-olds -- 5 The impact of culturally responsive teaching on statistical and probabilistic learning of elementary children -- 6 Inscriptional capactities and representations of young children engaged in data collection during a statistical investigation -- 7 Scaffolding statistical inquiries for young children -- 8 How kindergarten and elementary school students understanding the concept of classification -- Part III Teaching statistics and probability: Curriculum issues -- 9 Unpacking implicit disagreements among early childhood standards for statistics and probability -- 10 Statistical graphs in Spanish textbooks and diagnostic tests for 6-8 year-old children -- Part IV Teaching statistics and probability: Tasks and materials -- 11 Initiating interest in statistical problems: The role of picture story books -- 12 Teachers' reflections on challenges for teaching probability in the early years -- 13 Design, implementation and evaluation of an instructional sequence to lead primary school students to comparing groups in statistical projects -- 14 Data representations in early statistics: Data sense, meta-representational competence and transnumeration -- 15 Supporting young children to develop combinatorial reasoning -- Part V Teaching statistics and probability: Modelling -- 16 Integrating games into the early statistics classroom: Teacher professional development on game-enhanced learning -- 17 Young children's statistical literacy in modelling with data and chance.