Visualising chance: Learning probability through modelling

Abstract

This report summarises the research activities and findings from the TLRI-funded project entitled Visualising Chance: Learning Probability Through Modelling. This exploratory study was a 2-year collaboration among two researchers, two conceptual software developers/interactive graphics experts, three university lecturers/ practitioners, one master’s student, four teacher observers and one quality assurance advisor. The project team designed innovative software tools and associated tasks which aimed to expose introductory students to a modelling approach to probability. The study sought to discover what conceptual understanding of probability and what probabilistic reasoning could be promoted from such an approach.