Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 38 Issue 2, May 2001
27 – 33
Random Variables: Simulations and Surprising Connections
Robert J. Quinn and Stephen Tomlinson
Many traditional ideas about the content of the secondary mathematics curriculum are being challenged. The assumption that mathematics can be taught as a series of unrelated skills and algorithms is giving way to an approach that emphasizes the connections among the many branches of study. Such topics as probability and statistics must be given greater prominence as important and practical areas of mathematical knowledge.
