What are my chances?: Using probability and number sense to educate teens about the mathematical risks of gambling

Futures at Stake: Youth, Gambling, and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 63-83

  Crites, Terry W ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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