Towards the design of tools for the organization of the stochastic

Title
Towards the design of tools for the organization of the stochastic
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Prodromou, Theodosia
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-7756
Email: tprodrom@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tprodrom
Pratt, Dave
Editor
Editor(s): Marianna Bosch
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (ERME)
Place of publication
Online
Series
European Research in Mathematics Education
UNE publication id
une:8557
Abstract
This paper reports on one aspect of the ongoing doctoral research of the first named author. This study builds on prior work, which identified that students of age 11 years had sound intuitions for short-term randomness but had few tools for articulating patterns in longer-term randomness. This previous work did however identify the construction of new causal meanings for distribution when they interacted with a computer-based microworld. Through a design research methodology, we are building new microworlds that aspire to capture how students might use knowledge about the deterministic to explain probability distribution as an emergent phenomenon. In this paper, we report on some insights gained from early iterations and show how we have embodied these ideas into a new microworld, not yet tested with students.
Link
Citation
Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, p. 619-628
ISBN
8461132823
Start page
619
End page
628

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