PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2014
Denver, Colorado
What Are We Sure About? What Do They Tell About Our Probabilistic Thinking?
Page: 463
In this study the prospective teachers’ understanding of extreme probabilities is studied via their examples. Watson and Mason’s Learner Generated Examples (LGE) theory is employed to justify the type of data used in this study and to emphasize the importance of examples in learning about different levels of the learners’ probabilistic thinking.