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Cognitive Models and Problem Spaces in "Purely Random" Situations.
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Lecoutre, Marie-Paule – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1992
Reviews research indicating that students' cognitive models hold random events to be equiprobable Examined 87 students between the ages of 15 and 17 to determine whether masking a random event using geometric figures would affect the students' view of the event as equiprobable. Results indicated that masking overcame the equiprobable bias of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Mathematical Concepts