Using graphing calculators to redress beliefs in the "Law of Small Numbers".

Book: 
Thinking and reasoning with data and chance: Sixty-eighth Yearbook.
Authors: 
Flores, A.
Editors: 
Burrill, G. F.
Type: 
Chapter
Category: 
Teaching
Pages: 
291-304
Year: 
2006
Publisher: 
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Reston, VA.
Abstract: 

This article presents several activities and programs for a graphing calculator that can help students deal with misconceptions about expecting short runs to reflect closely the theoretical probability or the long-term behavior.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education