THE EVOLUTION OF TEACHERS' UNDERSTANDINGS OF DISTRIBUTION

Authors: 
Kay McClain
Type: 
Proceedings
Pages: 
online
Year: 
2008
Publisher: 
Proceedings from the joint ICMI/IASE Study Statistics in School Mathematics.<br>Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education
URL: 
http://www.ugr.es/~icmi/iase_study/Files/Contents.htm
Abstract: 

This paper provides an analysis of the evolution of the statistical understandings related to exploratory data analysis of a cohort of middle-school mathematics teachers. The analysis is grounded in a design experiment in the context of teacher development where the teachers' understandings of statistical data analysis, in particular, distribution were the mathematical endpoint. Activities from an instructional sequence designed to support ways to reason statistically about data were the basis of the engagement. Analyses of the episodes in this paper document the teachers' learning that occurred.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education