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Ridgway, Carolyn; Ridgway, Derry – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2010
Using sequences of coin flips as a model of serial independent events, we asked schoolchildren in grades 1 through 5 to estimate the likelihood of the next flip. Most children in each grade expected short patterns to continue.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Probability
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HodnikCadez, Tatjana; Skrbec, Maja – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2011
In the Slovenian National Mathematics Curriculum the probability contents are first mentioned in the ninth grade of elementary school (at the age of 14), yet they are introduced informally, only in some first triad textbook sets. The researchers disagree as to the age of children at which they are able to deal with certain probability contents. In…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Age Differences, Number Concepts, Preschool Children