This paper is from Session 2B: Secondary-level statistical education
which comes under Topic 2: Statistics education at the school level
(Wednesday 14th, 11:00-13:00)
Random walks in teaching probability at the high school
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Abstract
Since there’s a need of supporting Probability teaching, it is important to present to teachers different didactical activities, to support their practice. In this context, the “Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (CCH)” in Mexico, offered a course for a pedagogical formation and even conceptual support to their recent-hired Stats teachers. In 2009, two professors were selected for being guided by a researcher and responsible of the course, to apply in their regular classes a didactical sequence for Probability teaching, named Mônica’s random walks. This work aims to present and discuss this didactical sequence applied to high school students in CCH. This activity allows the students to work with diverse probability concepts, such as, difference between random and deterministic experiments, theoretical and frequentist probability, and is a recommended activity to help teachers in improving the level of literacy probability of their students.
