This book has been written to fill a substantial gap in the current literature in mathematical education. Throughout the world, school mathematical curricula have incorporated probability and statistics as new topics. There have been many research papers written on specific aspects of teaching, presenting novel and unusual approaches to introducing ideas in the classroom; however, there has been no book giving an overview. Here we have decided to focus on probability, making reference to inferential statistics where appropriate; we have deliberately avoided descriptive statistics as it is a separate area and would have made ideas less coherent and the book excessively long. The following chapters are included: - The educational perspective - Probabilistic perspective - Empirical research in understanding probability - Analysis of the probability curriculum - The theoretical nature of probability - Computers in probability education - Psychological Research in probabilistic understanding
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