Teaching Data Analysis and Probability Chapter 2- Analyzing Students’ Comparison of Two Distributions Using TinkerPlots

Teachers engage in a task comparing distributions using TinkerPlots and anticipate how middle school students might think about the problem with the software. Teachers then view a video case of teachers and students working with TinkerPlots on the task, and analyze students’ work and interactions with the software. The purpose of this extensive case is to have teachers critically examine the ways students use the tools in TinkerPlots to examine data and then consider implications for teaching specific to this case, as well as general ideas for engaging students in multi-variate data sets with dynamic graphing tools.