Wicked Problems as a Context for Probability Education

Title
Wicked Problems as a Context for Probability Education
Publication Date
2022
Author(s)
Prodromou, Theodosia
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-7756
Email: tprodrom@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tprodrom
Kynigos, Chronis
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
The Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Inc
Place of publication
Adelaide, Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/61259
Abstract

This study focuses on pre-service teachers’ experimentation with a game-modding process in a constructionist setting whilst they experimented with randomness embedded in wider socio-scientific issues that call for decision making under uncertainty. In this process, participants created 39 different game mods. Our observations of the participants while they worked on the mods suggest that grappling with wicked problems while using digital socio-scientific games can offer new contexts for harnessing causality to facilitate students’ meaning-making for randomness embedded in such contexts. In order to bridge the deterministic and the stochastic in wicked problems, the students transfer agency to specially designed numerical consequences of choices, by inserting proportional thinking, game theory, and probability.

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Citation
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, v.44, p. 450-457
ISBN
9781920846336
Start page
450
End page
457

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