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This paper is from Session 6B: Research on probabilistic reasoning and thinking

which comes under Topic 6: Research in Statistics education             Full topic list

(Monday 3rd, 16:00-18:00)

Using experimental approaches for teaching probability: working on a project using face to face and virtual sessions

Presenter

• Cileda de Queiroz e Silva Coutinho (Brazil)

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the teacher’s role in the introduction of probability to students aged from 11 to 18 years old. Coutinho (2001) has showed that model-building approaches enable students to attend to the duality of the probability concept. However, Gonçalves (2004) argues that teachers do not easily appropriate such teaching situations, because their conception are associated with their own practices, built from classic approaches to probability. In this paper, we discuss a teacher education project on teaching and learning probability problems, in which teachers and researchers collaborate during face-to-face and virtual sessions, to reflect upon and about teaching practices and especially about the possibilities associated with a model-building approach to probability.