Exploring Probability in School: Challenges for Teaching and Learning, de Graham A. Jones (ed.)

Abstract

Introduction; The Nature of Chance and Probability; Towards "Probability Literacy" for all Citizens: Building Blocks and Instructional Dilemmas; An Overview of Research into the Teaching and Learning of Probability; Characteristics of Elementary School Students' Probabilistic Reasoning; Combinatorics and the Development of Children's Combinatorial Reasoning; The Probabilistic Reasoning of Middle School Students; How do Teachers Foster Students' Understanding of Probability?; Dealing with Compound Events; How Can Teachers Build Notions of Conditional Probability and Independence?