Book/Printed Material Research on Teaching and Learning Probability

Title

• Research on Teaching and Learning Probability

Summary

• This book summarizes the vast amount of research related to teaching and learning probability that has been conducted for more than 50 years in a variety of disciplines. It begins with a synthesis of the most important probability interpretations throughout history: intuitive, classical, frequentist, subjective, logical propensity and axiomatic views. It discusses their possible applications, philosophical problems, as well as their potential and the level of interest they enjoy at different educational levels. Next, the book describes the main features of probabilistic thinking and reasoning, including the contrast to classical logic, probability language features, the role of intuitions, as well as paradoxes and the relevance of modeling. It presents an analysis of the differences between conditioning and causation, the variability expression in data as a sum of random and causal variations, as well as those of probabilistic versus statistical thinking. This is followed by an analysis of probability's role and main presence in school curricula and an outline of the central expectations in recent curricular guidelines at the primary, secondary and high school level in several countries. This book classifies and discusses in detail the three different research periods on students' and people's intuitions and difficulties concerning probability: early research focused on cognitive development, a period of heuristics and biases programs, and the current period marked by a multitude of foci, approaches and theoretical frameworks.

Names

• Batanero, Carmen, author
• Chernoff, Egan J, author
• Engel, Joachim, author
• Lee, Hollylynne S, author
• Sánchez, Ernesto, author

Created / Published

• Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

Contents

• Main Topics You Can Find in this "ICME-13 Topical Survey" -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.

Headings

• -  Instruction
• -  Learning
• -  Mathematics--Study and teaching
• -  Teaching
• -  Mathematics Education
• -  Learning & Instruction
• -  Teaching and Teacher Education

Notes

• -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
• -  Education (R0) (SpringerNature-43721)
• -  Education (SpringerNature-41171)

Medium

• 1 online resource (VII, 33 pages 1 illustrations)

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019758227

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019758227

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• epub

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019758227

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• Dublin Core Record