Middle school and high school students' probabilistic reasoning on coin tasks

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 531-556

  Rubel, Laurie H ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's strategies; Clinical interviews; Discrete mathematics; Probability; Reasoning; Secondary 5 12

Indexed keywords

EID: 36249004818     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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