Assessing high school knowledge of expectation and fair games

Authors

  • Herminia Guerrero Treviño I.E.S. Meléndez-Valdés, Villafranca de los Barros, Badajoz (España)
  • Juan Jesús Ortiz de Haro Universidad de Granada
  • José Miguel Contreras García Universidad de Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35763/aiem.v1i11.170

Keywords:

expectation, fair game, high school, random variable, probability

Abstract

In this paper we present an exploratory study of high school knowledge of mathematical expectation, which is considered by some authors to be more intuitive than the random variable and even than probability, in the context of fair games. We analyzed responses from a sample of 63 high school students two tasks with two parts each, report the correct answers and errors obtained and compare with results obtained by other authors.

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Published

2017-05-05

How to Cite

Guerrero Treviño, H., Ortiz de Haro, J. J., & Contreras García, J. M. (2017). Assessing high school knowledge of expectation and fair games. Advances of Research in Mathematics Education, (11), 107–125. https://doi.org/10.35763/aiem.v1i11.170

Issue

No. 11 (2017)

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