A dicey strategy to get your M & Ms
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Jones, G.
Thornton, C.
Langrall, C.
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An understanding and analyses of a learning episode where two children in year 4 interact with one another and their teacher while playing a probability game involving chocolate M and Ms is presented. In this game the children explore and focus on a number of powerful probabilistic ideas as this game produces congnitive conflict which in turn leads them to generate conjectures and engage in insightful mathematical reasoning.
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Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom
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5
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3
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© 2000 Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Inc.. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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Mathematical Sciences
Education