Preface
Section 1. Teaching probability
Chapter 1. Reasoning with risk: teaching probability and risk as twin concepts
Manfred Borovcnik and Ramesh Kapadia
Chapter 2. Language and lexical ambiguity in the probability register
Adam Molnar
Chapter 3. The status of probability in the elementary and lower secondary school mathematics curriculum: the rise and fall of probability in school mathematics in the United States
Cynthia W. Langrall
Chapter 4. Challenges and opportunities in experimentation-based instruction in probability
Per Nilsson, Andreas Eckert and Dave Pratt
Chapter 5. Visualising conditional probabilities - three perspectives on unit squares and tree diagrams
Katharina Böcherer-Linder, Andreas Eichler and Markus Vogel
Chapter 6. Probability concepts needed for teaching a repeated sampling approach to inference Hollylynne S. Lee
Chapter 7. Characterizing the probability problems proposed in university entrance tests in Andalucia
Carmen Batanero, Maria del Mar López-Martín, Pedro Arteaga and María M. Gea
Chapter 8. Random walks in the didactics of probability: enactive metaphoric learning sprouts
Jorge Soto, Daniela Díaz-Rojas and Pamela Reyes-Santander
Chapter 9. The role of statistics anxiety in learning probability
Caterina Primi, Anna Donati and Francesca Chiesi
Section 2. Students' reasoning and learning
Chapter 10. What 9- and 10-year old pupils already know and what they can learn about randomness
Peter Bryant, Terezinha Nunes, Deborah Evans, Rossana Barros, Laura Gottardis and Emanouela Terlektsi
Chapter 11. Understanding children's meaning of randomness in relation to random generators. Haneet Gandhi
Chapter 12. Reasoning in decision making under uncertainty and decisions of risi on a game of chance
Ana Serradó
Chapter 13. Determinism and empirical commitment in probabilistic reasoning of high school students
Ernesto Sanchez, Jaime García and Miguel Mercado
Chapter 14. Students' reasoning on sample space and probabilities of compound events
Pedro Landín and Jesús Salinas
Chapter 15. The six loses: risky decisions between probabilistic reasoning and gut feelings
Joachim Engel and Arne Orthwein
Section 3. Education of teachers
Chapter 16. Comparing the relative probabilities of events
Egan Chernoff, Ilona Vashchyshyn and Heidi Neufeld
Chapter 17. Preparing teachers for teaching probability through problem solving
Pedro M. Huerta
Chapter 18. Exploring teachers' attitudes towards probability and its teaching
Assumpta Estrada, Carmen Batanero and Carmen Díaz
Chapter 19. Students' reflections about a course for learning probability via simulations
Susanne Podworny
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