Topic 6
Innovations in teaching probability
Convenors
- Jill Fielding-Wells (Australia)
- Aisling Leavy (Ireland)
- Marcos Magalhães (Brazil)
- David Pratt (United Kingdom)
Abstract
The sessions in this topic will explore current innovations and new directions that identify the challenges in teaching probability and the opportunities to support probabilistic thinking, including its relationship with statistics. Concepts and models of uncertainty and variability are at the heart of statistical thinking and analysis. Probability and statistics are therefore intertwined, driven by data, real contexts, modelling and problem-solving. Students hold ideas about probability based on their life experiences, which the teaching of probability can build on and challenge. As a result, sustainable representations of probability, integrated with data and statistical thinking, can be developed.
Sessions
| Session | Title | Organizer |
| 6A | Conditional Probability, Part 1: Learning probability with visualisation | Andreas Eichler (Germany) |
| 6B | Learning Conditional Probability, Part 2 | Andreas Eichler (Germany) |
| 6C | Teaching Probability in School - Understanding Probability and Linking to Statistical Inference | Manfred Borovcnik (Austria) |
| 6D | Role of Probability ‘Games’ in Learning | Marcos Magalhães (Brazil) |
| 6E | Concepts in teaching probability: learning obstacles and proposals for how to overcome them | Markus Vogel (Germany) |
| 6F | Novel Approaches to Teaching Probability | Helen Chick (Australia) |
| 6G | Challenges in Teaching Probability | Neil Hatfield (United States of America) |
| 6H | Post-secondary Conceptions of Probability | J. Todd Lee (United States) |