Students' intuitions on randomness /
After a general teaching unit from the Quantitative Literacy
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | After a general teaching unit from the Quantitative Literacy analyses showed that students were able to overcome using the and a visual process to identify randomness. The posttest beliefs of 46 junior high and high school students were concept of randomness was the focus of this study. Intuitive consistent with results found in the literature -- they used did correctly alter a significant number of students' incorrect intuitions were correctly altered or adjusted. intuitive beliefs about randomness. intuitive beliefs that students have about statistical judging a sequence to be random. Therefore, the treatment measured through a posttest and interviews to see if measured through administration of a pretest and interviews. Most of the students-'intuitions on the pretest were parts of the math curriculum for all students. A serious phenomena. Students 'intuitions about the statistical Probability and statistics have been recognized as essential representativeness heuristic and a visual process when series Exploring Probability, intuitions were once again source of difficulty in learning statistics is the incorrect the representativeness heuristic, the law-of-small numbers, |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Educational Curriculum and Instruction". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 63 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |