Numbers, Please! The Telephone Directory and Probability.

Brunner, Regina Baron

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ERIC Number: EJ557464

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Numbers, Please! The Telephone Directory and Probability.

Brunner, Regina Baron

Mathematics Teacher, v90 n9 p704-05 Dec 1997

Presents a Monte Carlo simulation on probability using a telephone directory as a pseudorandom-number generator. Claims that Monte Carlo simulations offer a way to teach probability concretely and with understanding and that students enjoy the probability experiments. (ASK)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Monte Carlo Methods, Probability, Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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