Students' reasoning about one-object stochastic phenomena in an ICT-environment

International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-133

  Iversen, Kjærand ^a,b   Nilsson, Per ^c  

^a NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Compound events; Computer simulation; Contextualization; Probabilistic reasoning; Stochastic phenomena

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STUDENTS;

COMPOUND EVENTS; CONTEXTUALIZATION; PROBABILISTIC REASONING; STOCHASTIC PHENOMENA;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 34547683661     PISSN: 13823892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10758-007-9116-0     Document Type: Article

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