Cognitive Models and Problem Spaces in "Purely Random" Situations.

Lecoutre, Marie-Paule

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Publication Date: 1992

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Cognitive Models and Problem Spaces in "Purely Random" Situations.

Lecoutre, Marie-Paule

Educational Studies in Mathematics, v23 n6 p557-68 Dec 1992

Reviews research indicating that students' cognitive models hold random events to be equiprobable Examined 87 students between the ages of 15 and 17 to determine whether masking a random event using geometric figures would affect the students' view of the event as equiprobable. Results indicated that masking overcame the equiprobable bias of the students. (25 references) (MDH)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education, Misconceptions, Models, Probability, Problem Solving, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students

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