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Cognitive Snapshots of the Stochastic River--A Review of "Chance Encounters: Probability in Education," edited by Ramesh Kapadia and Manfred Borovcnik.

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Shaughnessy, J. Michael – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1993

Reviews chapters of this book on probability in mathematics education. Topics discussed in the chapters include a historical perspective of probability, an epistemological perspective of probability, an overview of the psychological research on probability learning, computers in probability education, and an analysis of the probability curriculum.…

Descriptors: Book Reviews, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Concept Formation

Programming Mathematics: A New Approach in Teaching the Disadvantaged.

Bar-On, Ehud; Or-Bach, Rachel – 1985

The development of an instructional model for teaching formal mathematical concepts (probability concepts) to disadvantaged high school students through computer programming and some results from a field test are described in this document. The instructional model takes into account both learner characteristics (cognitive, affective, and…

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Style, Computation