Making sense of the total of two dice

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 602-625

  Pratt, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computers; Intermediate middle grades; Probability; Secondary mathematics; Stochastics

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044523977     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749889     Document Type: Article

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