Using data to enhance the understanding of functions: Data analysis in the precalculus curriculum.

Book: 
Thinking and reasoning with data and chance: Sixty-eighth Yearbook.
Authors: 
Flanagan-Hyde, P., & Lieb. J.
Editors: 
Burrill, G. F.
Type: 
Chapter
Category: 
Teaching
Pages: 
209-227
Year: 
2006
Publisher: 
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Reston, VA.
Abstract: 

This article examines two essential questions in making a good model from data - describing the pattern of variation and explaining the proportion of the variation by using functions.

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