Type:
Volume:
22
Pages:
online
Year:
1991
Publisher:
Educational Studies in Mathematics
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3482209
Abstract:
To investigate the origins and nature of intuitive obstacles affecting the learning of elementary probability theory, 618 Italian elementary and middle school students were interviewed about their methods of solution for several problems dealing with probability. The discussion focuses on four varieties of obstacles to learning prevalent within the findings of this study.
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