PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
Pre-service teachers’ use of informal language while solving a probabilistic problem
Page: 1631
This exploratory study investigates pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) collaborative discus-sions to solve probabilistic problem. The PSTs synchronously collaborated online using Virtual Math Teams with GeoGebra to investigate the fairness of a series of die by using interactive simulation to randomly sample from the die with replacement. While discussing their solution in the chat panel, the PSTs used informal, non-standard language to describe the distribution of the data. In this poster, we present examples of how the PSTs, using informal language, co- constructed their knowledge of different probabilistic concepts while solving the problem. This study contributes one of a series of tasks that were designed to elicit how PSTs build understandings of mathematical concepts without formal introductions to these concepts.