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'I don't really understand probability at all': Final year pre-service teachers' Understanding of probability
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Maher, N and Muir, T, 'I don't really understand probability at all': Final year pre-service teachers' Understanding of probability, Proceedings of The 37th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 29 June - 3 July 2014, Aerial Centre, University of Technology, Sydney, pp. 437-444. ISBN 978-1-920846-27-5 (2014) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Copyright 2014 Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Incorporated
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Abstract
This paper reports on one aspect of a wider study that investigated a selection of final year
pre-service primary teachers' responses to four probability tasks. The tasks focused on
foundational ideas of probability including sample space, independence, variation and
expectation. Responses suggested that strongly held intuitions appeared to inte1fere with
understanding probability, which impacted on the pre-service teachers' ability to identify
students' errors and to confidently provide appropriate teaching suggestions and
approaches.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | pre-service teachers, pedagogical content knowledge, probability |
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Curriculum and Pedagogy |
| Research Field: | Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Teaching and Instruction |
| Objective Field: | Pedagogy |
| UTAS Author: | Maher, N (Mrs Nicole Maher) |
| UTAS Author: | Muir, T (Associate Professor Tracey Muir) |
| ID Code: | 93222 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2014-07-18 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-03-18 |
| Downloads: | 206 View Download Statistics |
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