Stats invaders! Learning about statistics by playing a classic video game

FDG 2010 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 248-249

  Arena, Dylan ^a   Schwartz, Daniel L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Preparation for future learning; Probability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; GAME SPACE; LEARNING PROBABILITY; VIDEO GAME;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77955145019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822348.1822381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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