Exploring students' intuitive ideas of randomness using an iPod shuffle activity. (6th December 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ziegler, Laura; Garfield, Joan
• Is Part Of: Teaching statistics. Volume 35:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 2
• Page End: 7
• Publication Date: 2012-12-06
• Subjects: Statistics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Periodicals; Statistics -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Periodicals; 373
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2012.00531.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0141-982X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Summary</title> <p>This article presents an activity that engages students in considering characteristics of a random sequence, in this case, a randomly generated playlist of songs using the iPod shuffle feature. Students examine simulated sequences of randomly generated songs from a small music library in order to identify characteristics that are used to develop rules that they then apply to judge whether three suspicious lists are likely to be nonrandom.</p> </abstract>