Exploring Probability in School: Challenges for Teaching and Learning (Hardcover, 2005)

CONTRIBUTORS -PREFACE -INTRODUCTION -SECTION 1: PERSPECTIVES ON PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY EDUCATION -The Nature of Chance and Probability -Towards 'Probability Literacy' for All Citizens: Building Blocks and Instructional Dilemmas -An Overview of Research into the Teaching and Learning of Probability -SECTION 2: TEACHING AND LEARNING PROBABILITY IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL -Characteristics of Elementary School Students' Probabilistic Thinking -Combinatorics and the Development of Children's Combinatorial Reasoning -SECTION 3: TEACHING AND LEARNING PROBABILITY IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL -The Probabilistic Reasoning of Middle School Students -How Do Teachers Foster Students' Understanding of Probability? - Dealing with Compound Events -How Can Teachers Build Notions of Conditional Probability and Independence? -SECTION 4: TEACHING AND LEARNING PROBABILITY IN THE HIGH SCHOOL -What is the Nature of High School Students' Conceptions and Misconceptions about Probability? - Probability and Statistical Inference: How Can Teachers Enable Learners to Make the Connection? -SECTION 5: TEACHERS AND PROBABILITY -Teaching and Learning the Mathematization of Uncertainty: Historical, Cultural, Social and Political Contexts -Assessing Probabilistic Thinking and Reasoning -Probability in Teacher Education and Development -REFLECTIONS -Name Index -Subject Index.