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Connecting Research to Teaching. Probability and Statistics.
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Shaughnessey, J. Michael – Mathematics Teacher, 1993
Presents research findings related to students' intuitive ideas about the concepts of chance to inform teachers how students form their concepts of probability and statistics. Discusses adolescents' conceptions of uncertainty, judgmental heuristics in making estimates of event likelihood, the conjunction fallacy, the outcome approach, attempts to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Learning Activities