Research on Teaching and Learning Probability

Research in probability education is now well established and tries to improve the challenges posed in the education of students and teachers. In this survey on the state of the art, we summarise existing research in probability education before pointing to some ideas and questions that may help in framing a future research agenda.

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[103]  Pedro Arteaga,et al.  Prospective Primary School Teachers’ Perception of Randomness , 2014 .

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