Type:
Volume:
33(2)
Pages:
online
Year:
2011
Publisher:
Teaching Statistics
URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00433.x/abstract
Abstract:
This article describes an investigation of Buffon's coin problem and related problems with the aid of an applet. The problems are accessible at a variety of grade levels and facilitate making connections between geometry and probability.
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