Harnessing the Causal to Illuminate the Stochastic

Author(s)
Prodromou, Theodosia
Pratt, David
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
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.
Citation
Research Proceedings of the Sixth British Congress of Mathematics Education, p. 136-143
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Publisher
British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics
Series
BSRLM Proceedings
Title
Harnessing the Causal to Illuminate the Stochastic
Type of document
Conference Publication
Entity Type
Publication

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