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Chernoff, Egan J.; Russell, Gale L.; Banting, Nat – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
A number of memorable tasks have been revealed through collegial exchanges with underlying philosophical, theoretical, and potentially nefarious motivations. Such was the origin of the probability problem, and the various differences of opinion, presented herein. This article recounts how, together, we explored and disputed the probabilities…
Descriptors: Probability, Games, Interpersonal Communication, Problem Solving
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Martínez-Pérez, Sandra Areli; Sanchez Sanchez, Ernesto A. – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
This work reports the results of an investigation that aimed to know the informal reasoning of high school students with and about the frequency approach of probability and the law of large numbers when they were faced with a problem about random intervals. The research question was as follows: What features of students' reasoning about the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Thinking Skills, Incidence, Problem Solving
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Pérez, Katherine Machuca; Delgadillo, Elizabeth Montoya – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
The objective of this qualitative research is to study the mathematical work when solving a mathematical task in the domain of probability presented by Chilean high school mathematics teachers in pre-service and in-service training. We consider as theoretical support the Mathematical Working Space model and methodological design of a collective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Probability
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Watson, Jane M.; English, Lyn D. – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2017
This report is based on an activity completed by 89 Grade 6 students carrying out a statistical investigation with a focus on posing an initial question given a context and then refining it for a chosen data set. Having reached a conclusion based on evidence from their data analysis, students were given additional information on the context and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 6, Problem Solving, Foreign Countries