Different ways in which students handle chance encounters in the explorative setting of a dice game

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 293-315

  Nilsson, Per ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chance encounters; Contextualization; Dice game; Probability thinking; Resources; Strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548497167     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-006-9062-0     Document Type: Article

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