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  title info:
    title: Probabilistic Thinking
    sub title: Presenting Plural Perspectives
  name:
    name part: Chernoff, Egan J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sriraman, Bharath.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 747 p. 164 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This volume provides a necessary, current and extensive analysis of probabilistic thinking from a number of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and psychologists. The work of 58 contributing authors, investigating probabilistic thinking across the globe, is encapsulated in 6 prefaces, 29 chapters and 6 commentaries. Ultimately, the four main perspectives presented in this volume (Mathematics and Philosophy, Psychology, Stochastics and Mathematics Education) are designed to represent probabilistic thinking in a greater context. “Uncertainty is part of our lives and we all have to deal with it and make decisions in spite of it. Ability to use ideas from probability theory as a way of quantifying uncertainty needs to be an integral part of our education at many levels and this book will surely play a useful role." - S.R.Srinivasa Varadhan, Recipient of the 2007 Abel Prize in Mathematics and the 2010 National Medal of Science “A welcome look at probability, with philosophical and psychological perspectives that offer foundations for both students and teachers of probability at the school and university levels. Very comprehensive and promises a great deal to the reader. Teachers and students will benefit from articles that clarify the competition between the frequentist and the Bayesian views of probability." - Reuben Hersh, Author of "What is Mathematics, Really?" and co-author of "The Mathematical Experience" “I often get asked why people find probability so unintuitive and difficult. After years of research, I have concluded it’s because probability really is unintuitive and difficult. This ground-breaking text acknowledges the full complexity of teaching this subject: the contributions face up to the competing interpretations of probability, emphasising the close connection to both human psychology and real-world problem-solving tasks. I am personally very pleased to see the subjective interpretation taken seriously, while also admiring the suggestions for teachin…
  table of contents: SERIES PREFACE: Gabriele Kaiser and Bharath Sriraman -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD: Keith Devlin -- INTRODUCTION: Egan Chernoff and Bharath Sriraman -- PERSPECTIVE I: MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY -- Preface to Perspective I: Mathematics and Philosophy: Egan Chernoff and Gale Russell -- I.I. A historical and philosophical perspective on probability: Manfred Borovcnik and Ramesh Kapadia -- I.II. From puzzles and paradoxes to concepts in probability: Manfred Borovcnik and Ramesh Kapadia -- I.III. Three approaches for modeling situation with randomness: Andreas Eichler and Markus Vogel -- I.IV. A modeling perspective on probability: Maxine Pfannkuch and Ilze Ziedins -- Commentary on Perspective I: Mathematics and Philosophy: Bharath Sriraman and Kyeong-Hwa Lee -- PERSPECTIVE II: PSYCHOLOGY -- Preface to Perspective II: Psychology : Wim van Dooren -- II.I. Statistical thinking: no child left behind: Björn Meder and Gerd Gigerenzer -- II.II. The A-B-C of probabilistic literacy: Laura Martignon -- II.III. Intuitive conceptions of probability and the development of basic math skills: Gary Brase, Sherri Martinie and Carlos Castillo-Garsow -- II.IV. Testing a model on probabilistic reasoning: Francesca Chiesi and Caterina Primi -- II.V. Revisiting the medical diagnosis problem: reconciling intuitive and analytical thinking: Lisser Rye Ejersbo and Uri Leron -- II.VI. Rethinking probability education: perceptual judgment as epistemic resource: Dor Abrahamson -- II.VII. Sticking to your guns: a flawed heuristic for probabilistic decision-making: Deborah Bennett -- II.VIII. Developing probabilistic thinking: what about peoples’ conceptions: Annie Savard -- Commentary I on Perspective II: Psychology : Brian Greer -- Commentary II on Perspective II: Psychology: Richard Lesh and Bharath Sriraman -- PERSPECTIVE III: STOCHASTICS -- Preface to Perspective III: Stochastics: Bharath Sriraman and Egan Chernoff -- III.I. Prospective primary school teachers’ perception of randomness: Carmen…
  note: edited by Egan J. Chernoff, Bharath Sriraman.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics Education
  subject:
    topic: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Education
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 370
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Advances in Mathematics Education
  identifier: 9789400771550
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7155-0
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