Type:
Category:
Volume:
5(4)
Pages:
210-213
Year:
1999
Publisher:
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
Abstract:
This article discusses a lesson that explores important mathematical topics in the context of this popular board game [Scrabble]. Specifcally, this lesson meets the recommendations of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to give middle school students opportunities to make conjectures and to gather, represent, and interpret statistical data while engaging in an enjoyable, cooperative, interdisciplinary activitiy (NCTM 1989).
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