| Description |
x, 140 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Series |
Principles and standards for school mathematics navigations series
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Principles and standards for school mathematics navigations series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140). |
| Summary |
Discusses the early development of data and probability concepts and shows teachers how to introduce some foundational ideas to young students. |
| Contents |
The concept of probability -- Probability distributions -- Prediction and the law of large numbers -- Connecting probability and statistics -- Blackline masters and solutions. |
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Contents of accompanying CD-ROM: Table of standards and expectations, data analysis and probability, pre-K-12 -- Applet activities -- Blackline masters -- Enriching students' mathematical intuitions with probability games and tree diagrams / Leslie Aspinwall and Kenneth L. Shaw -- Counting attribute blocks : constructing meaning for the multiplication principle / Elliott Bird -- Genetics as a context for the study of probabiliy / Daniel J. Brahier -- Fair games, unfair games / George W. Bright, John G. Harvey, and Margariete Montague Wheeler -- Readers write : is rock, scissors, paper a fair game? / Donald J. Dessart and Charlene M. DeRidder -- Probability on a budget / William A. Ewbank and John L. Ginther -- Roll the dice : an introduction to probability / Andrew Freda -- Understanding students' probablistic reasoning / Graham A. Jones ... [et al.] -- Push-penny : what is your expected score? / Gary Kader and Mike Perry -- From 'The giver' to 'The twenty-one balloons' : explorations with probability / Ann Lawrence -- Socrates and the three little pigs : connecting patterns, counting trees, and probability / Denisse R. Thompson and Richard A. Austin -- Racing to understand probability / Laura R. Van Zoest and Rebecca K. Walker -- Exploring probability through an even-odds dice game / Lynda R. Wiest and Robert J. Quinn. |
| Subject |
Mathematical statistics -- Study and teaching (Middle school)
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Mathematical statistics. |
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Probabilities -- Study and teaching (Middle school)
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Probabilities. |
| Added Author |
Bright, George W.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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| ISBN |
0873535235 paperback |
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9780873535236 paperback |
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