Type:
Pages:
online
Year:
2007
Publisher:
Proceedings of IASE satellite conference
URL:
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lss/statistics/
Abstract:
The aim of this study is to assess and investigate how many combinations can be manipulated by preschoolers in a probabilistic task. The task was computer- based and included 3 trials with alterations among the colour- combinations and proportions of the sample space. With the use of intuitive thinking or more concrete reasoning children at the age of 5-6, showed that they posses the notion of most/least likely when there are 2 and 3 combinations (not 4).
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