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Motivating Inquiry in Statistics and Probability in the Primary Classroom
Author(s) -
Leavy Aisling,
Hourigan Mairéad
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12062
Subject(s) - primary (astronomy) , mathematics education , statistics , probability and statistics , statistics education , psychology , computer science , mathematics , physics , astronomy
Summary We describe how the use of a games environment combined with technology supports upper primary children in engaging with a concept traditionally considered too advanced for the primary classes: The Law of Large Numbers .