DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS IN DATA AND CHANCE THROUGH THE USE OF TOOLS PROVIDED BY COMPUTER-BASED TECHNOLOGY

摘要

To support middle school students' learning of data and chance, we have developed a set of classroom activities along with a probability simulation tool integrated into a future version of the dynamic data analysis software TinkerPlots (Konold & Miller, 2004). The activities and the software were designed to build on students' current intuitions. In this paper, we describe the modeling and simulation capabilities of TinkerPlots and how particular features influence the formation of new ideas as students begin to perceive data as comprising signal and noise.