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Publication Date: 2022
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Wicked Problems as a Context for Probability Education
Prodromou, Theodosia; Kynigos, Chronis
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) (44th, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, Jul 3-7, 2022)
This study focuses on pre-service teachers' experimentation with a game-modding process in a constructionist setting whilst they experimented with randomness embedded in wider socio-scientific issues that call for decision making under uncertainty. In this process, participants created 39 different game mods. Our observations of the participants while they worked on the mods suggest that grappling with wicked problems while using digital socio-scientific games can offer new contexts for harnessing causality to facilitate students' meaning-making for randomness embedded in such contexts. In order to bridge the deterministic and the stochastic in wicked problems, the students transfer agency to specially designed numerical consequences of choices, by inserting proportional thinking, game theory, and probability.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Decision Making, Constructivism (Learning), Problem Solving, Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Game Theory, Probability, Thinking Skills, Teacher Education Programs, Concept Formation, Communities of Practice, Graduate Students, Elementary School Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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