ICME 13

13th International Congress on Mathematical Education, Hamburg, Germany 2016

Contributions under TSG 14. TEACHING AND LEARNING OF PROBABILITY were as follows.

Organization

• Co-chairs: Carmen Batanero (Spain), Egan Chernoff (Canada)
• Team members: Joachim Engel (Germany), Ernesto Sánchez (Mexico), Hollylynne S. Lee (USA)
• IPC Liaison person: Rute Borba (Brazil)

Invited papers

• Professional development for teaching probability and inference statistics with digital tools at upper secondary level : Rolf Biehler
• Reasoning with risk: a survival guide : Mandfred Borovnick and Ramesh Kapadia
• Comparing the relative probabilities of events : Egan Chernoff, Ilona Vashchyshyn, and Heidi Neufeld
• Between fear and greed: the six looses : Joachim Engel
• The rise and fall of probability in the k–8 mathematics curriculum in the United States : Cynthia W.Langrall
• A framework of probability concepts needed for teaching repeated sampling approaches to inference : Hollylynne Lee and Helen M. Doerr
• Interactive experimentation in probability -opportunities, challenges and needs of research : Per Nilsson and Andreas Eckert
• Theoretical dogmatism and empirical commitment in the informal probabilistic reasoning of high school students : Ernesto Sanchez, Miguel Mercado and Jaime García

Long papers

• Teaching 9 and 10 year old children about randomness : Peter Bryant Terezinha Nunes, Deborah Evans, Laura Gottardis and Maria-Emmanouela Terlektsi
• Exploring teachers’ attitudes towards probability and its teaching : Assumpta Estrada, Carmen Batanero, Carles Comas and Carmen Diaz
• Understanding children’s conception of randomness through explorations with symmetrical polyhedrons : Haneet Gandhi
• Prospective teachers’ solutions to a probability problem in a sampling context : Emilse Gómez, Carmen Díaz and J. Miguel Contreras
• Risk as an explanatory factor for researchers’ inferential interpretations : Rink Hoekstra
• Probabilistic reasoning in high school students on sample space and probability of compound events : Pedro Landín-Vargas and Jesús Salinas-Herrera
• Characterizing the probability problems proposed in the entrance to university tests in Andalucia : M.Mar López-Martín, Carmen Batanero, J. Miguel Contreras, and Juan J. Ortiz
• Learners’ use of probability models in answering probability tasks in South Africa : Judah Makonye
• High school mathematics teachers' understanding of independent events : Adam Molnar
• The teaching of probability in context through reading and writing strategies at secondary education : Roberto Alves de Oliveira
• Design of a course for learning probability via simulations with Tinkerplots : Susanne Podworny
• Statistics anxiety: a mediator in learning probability : Caterina Primi and Francesca Chiesi

Short oral communications

• The impact of visualization on understanding conditional probabilities : Katharina Böcherer-Linder, Andreas Eichler and Markus Vogel
• Performance in stochastic between secondary teachers and teaching students: comparative study in Costa Rica and México : J. Humberto Cuevas-Acosta and Greivin Ramírez-Arce
• Teaching probability and statistics with e-status : Mónica Giuliano, Silvia Pérez and Martín García
• Preparing teachers for teaching probability through problem solving : Pedro M. Huerta
• Connecting theoretical probability and experimental probability in a modeling environment : Santiago Inzunsa
• Pitfalls and surprises in the teaching of probability : Signe Holm Knudtzon
• The teaching of probability to students judged or not with difficulties in mathematics in elementary classes in Quebec : Vincent Martin and Laurent Theis
• Understanding professors’ decisions to assess students’ learning of probability : Isaías Miranda-Viramontes and Beatriz Rodríguez-González
• Representations in probability problems : María Nascimento, Eva Morais and J. Alexandre Martins
• Strengthening of elementary teachers in the use of probability in everyday life events : Augusta Osorio
• Random variable and its relationship with statistical variable: an educational perspective from a concept analysis : Blanca Ruiz
• Mathematization of uncertainty with the aid of computers: a model of activity in high school : Annarosa Serpe
• Enhancing reasoning on risk management through a decision-making process on a game of chance task : Ana Serrado-Bayes
• Children’s learning progressions on probability and suggestions for curriculum improvement : He Shengqing and Gong Zikun
• Random walks as learning sprouts in the didactics of probability : Jorge Soto-Andrade and Daniela Diaz-Rojas
• Study on developmental stages and important periods of probability cognition for children aged 6-14 : Gong Zikun and He Shengqing

Posters

• A pilot study on teaching probability in primary school : Roos Blankespoorab, Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizena, Michiel Veldhuisa, Jan Boomc, and Anika Dreherb
• Achievements and difficulties in learning probability : Melissa Denisse Castillo Medrano
• Representations in probability problems: some examples : Eva Morais, Maria Nascimento and, J. Alexandre Martins
• Pedagogical content knowledge and motivation – Probability as a topic in Primary teacher education : Barbara Drollinger-Vetter, Alex Buff & Kathleen Philipp