Teaching and learning stochastics : advances in probability education research /: advances in probability education research. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carmen Batanero, Egan J. Chernoff, editors.
• Editors: Batanero, C (Carmen); Chernoff, Egan J
• Contents: Preface -- Section 1. Teaching probability -- Chapter 1. Reasoning with risk: teaching probability and risk as twin concepts -- Chapter 2. Language and lexical ambiguity in the probability register -- Chapter 3. The status of probability in the elementary and lower secondary school mathematics curriculum: the rise and fall of probability in school mathematics in the United States -- Chapter 4. Challenges and opportunities in experimentation-based instruction in probability -- Chapter 5. Visualising conditional probabilities -- three perspectives on unit squares and tree diagrams -- Chapter 6. Probability concepts needed for teaching a repeated sampling approach to inference -- Chapter 7. Characterizing the probability problems proposed in university entrance tests in Andalucia -- Chapter 8. Random walks in the didactics of probability: enactive metaphoric learning sprouts -- Chapter 9. The role of statistics anxiety in learning probability -- Section 2. Students' reasoning and learning -- Chapter 10. What 9- and 10-year old pupils already know and what they can learn about randomness -- Chapter 11. Understanding children's meaning of randomness in relation to random generators. -- Chapter 12. Reasoning in decision making under uncertainty and decisions of risi on a game of chance -- Chapter 13. Determinism and empirical commitment in probabilistic reasoning of high school students -- Chapter 14. Students' reasoning on sample space and probabilities of compound events -- Chapter 15. The six loses: risky decisions between probabilistic reasoning and gut feelings -- Section 3. Education of teachers -- Chapter 16. Comparing the relative probabilities of events -- Chapter 17. Preparing teachers for teaching probability through problem solving -- Chapter 18. Exploring teachers' attitudes towards probability and its teaching -- Chapter 19. Students' reflections about a course for learning probability via simulations -- Chapter 20. Prospective teachers reasoning in the context of sampling -- A commentary on teaching and learning stochastics: Advances in probability education research.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 519.2; Education; Probabilities -- Study and teaching; Stochastic processes; Teachers -- Training of; Education -- Research; MATHEMATICS -- Applied; MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Education -- Research; Probabilities -- Study and teaching; Stochastic processes; Teachers -- Training of; Education -- Professional Development; Education -- Educational Psychology; Probability & statistics; Teacher training; Teaching skills & techniques; Mathematics; Distribution (Probability theory); Education -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Mathematics; Teaching of a specific subject; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319728711; 3319728717
• Related ISBNs: 9783319728704; 3319728709
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 15, 2018).
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