AIMS Materials: Distribution
Introduction to the Lessons
The two lessons on distribution contain many small activities, which together lead students from exploring one set of data in a simple, intuitive form, to more sophisticated activities that involve comparing and matching graphs. While it is not at all “traditional” to spend two full class sessions on the idea of distribution and basic graphs, we feel strongly that unless students understand this idea early on, they will not understand most of the subsequent course material at a deep level. We also suggest returning to the basic idea of distributions throughout the course, looking at and describing graphs, comparing different representations of the same graph, as they move from empirical to theoretical distributions, and back to empirical ones.
Distribution Materials
The AIMS materials for the topic of distribution include several different zipped folders. Each folder contains the relevant materials for this topic. There is also a PDF file of the topic's sequence of ideas and associated activities. All materials can be accessed by selecting the icon to the right of the file description.
