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Martha Elena Aguiar Barrera; Humberto Gutierrez Pulido; Veronica Vargas Alejo – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2023
This research presents the results of the implementation of a model-eliciting activity called Brickyards, designed to promote the learning of the binomial distribution. The theoretical framework used was the Models and Modeling Perspective, and the participants were undergraduate students enrolled in a probability and statistics course of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Civil Engineering, Learning Activities
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Jungck, John R. – PRIMUS, 2022
Finite Mathematics has become an enormously rich and productive area of contemporary mathematical biology. Fortunately, educators have developed educational modules based upon many of the models that have used Finite Mathematics in mathematical biology research. A sufficient variety of computer modules that employ graph theory (phylogenetic trees,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Models, Learning Modules
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Braham, Hana Manor; Ben-Zvi, Dani – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
A fundamental aspect of statistical inference is representation of real-world data using statistical models. This article analyzes students' articulations of statistical models and modeling during their first steps in making informal statistical inferences. An integrated modeling approach (IMA) was designed and implemented to help students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Statistical Inference, Mathematical Models
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Price, James C. – PRIMUS, 2015
This article presents four inquiry-based learning activities developed for a liberal arts math course. The activities cover four topics: the Pythagorean theorem, interest theory, optimization, and the Monty Hall problem. Each activity consists of a dialogue, with a theme and characters related to the topic, and a manipulative, that allow students…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction
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Morrell, Christopher H.; Auer, Richard E. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2007
In the early 1990s, the National Science Foundation funded many research projects for improving statistical education. Many of these stressed the need for classroom activities that illustrate important issues of designing experiments, generating quality data, fitting models, and performing statistical tests. Our paper describes such an activity on…
Descriptors: Statistics, Learning Activities, Class Activities, Homework
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Jones, Graham A.; And Others – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1996
Describes several activities of the Data and Chance program involving third and fourth graders. Students use real-life situations to investigate probability. (MKR)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Mathematical Models
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Lappan, Glenda; And Others – Mathematics Teacher, 1987
The activity uses an area model to analyze probabilities associated with games of chance. Three activity sheets are included, with teaching suggestions. (MNS)
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction
Hill, Linda; Rothery, Andrew – Mathematics Teaching, 1975
Mathematical modelling activities related to everyday situations (e.g., traffic lights) can be used to develop probability concepts. (SD)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instruction, Learning Activities, Mathematical Concepts
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Paul, Clyde – Mathematics Teacher, 1995
Uses probability models in problem-solving activities based on an episode of the television show "Gunsmoke." (MKR)
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Activities, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Education
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Driver, Dennis A.; English, Richard – Mathematics in School, 1991
Presented is the solution to the problem of calculating the probability of winning or losing a game played by moving a counter from the center of a hexagonal grid according to the number shown after the toss of a die. The exercise is an example of an interesting mathematical investigation. (MDH)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Educational Games, Enrichment Activities, Learning Activities
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Lappan, Glenda; Winter, M. J. – Mathematics Teacher, 1980
Two simulations designed to teach probability to middle-school age pupils are presented. The first simulates the one-on-one foul shot simulation in basketball; the second deals with collecting a set of six cereal box prizes by buying boxes containing one toy each. (MP)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Mathematical Concepts
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May, E. Lee, Jr. – Mathematics Teacher, 1992
Presents mathematical models to determine whether seven-game baseball playoff series are significantly fairer than five-game series. Compares the results obtained from the models to actual playoff results. (MDH)
Descriptors: Baseball, Competition, Enrichment Activities, Learning Activities
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Folio, Catherine – Mathematics Teacher, 1987
An activity involving the charting of the spread of a disease is described. Arrows are used to develop models of the progression of the disease. (MNS)
Descriptors: Grade 7, Graphs, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Learning Activities
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Schwartzman, Steven – Mathematics Teacher, 1993
Discusses the surprising result that the expected number of marbles of one color drawn from a set of marbles of two colors after two draws without replacement is the same as the expected number of that color marble after two draws with replacement. Presents mathematical models to help explain this phenomenon. (MDH)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Games, Higher Education, Learning Activities
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Goldberg, Kenneth P. – Mathematics Teacher, 1994
Demonstrates the use of graphing technology to help students develop and interpret three models of jury behavior and explore the potential effect of such actions as changing jury size. MathCAD, an electronic notebook was used. (Contains 10 references.) (MKR)
Descriptors: Calculators, Computer Graphics, Graphs, Juries
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