Hands-on activities for fourth graders: A tool box for decision-making and reckoning with risk

International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 227-258

  Martignon, Laura ^a   Krauss, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian reasoning; Risk; Tinker Cubes; Tool kit; Wason's experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350029348     PISSN: 13063030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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