Includes bibliographies and index. Electronic publication; Full text available in PDF format; abstract in HTML format. The teaching of probability in schools provides a good opportunity for examining how a new topic is integrated into a school curriculum. Furthermore, because probabilistic thinking is quite different from the deterministic thinking traditionally found in mathematics classrooms, such an examination is particularly able to highlight significant forces operating within educational practice. After six chapters which describe relevant aspects of the philosophical, cultural, and intellectual environment within which probability has been taught, a 'Broad-Spectrum Ecological Model' is developed to examine the forces which operate on a school system. Electronic reproduction.[Australia] :Australian Digital Theses Program,2001. 2 v. (xxxi, 1023 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/116477 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Truran, J. M. (John M.) |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Relation | SUA |
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