11-12 Year Old Children's Informal Knowledge and Its Influence on their Formal Probabilistic Reasoning [electronic resource] / J. S. Williams and G. S. Amir.

This study sought to determine: (1) what children understand about "chance" when they begin secondary school?; and (2) how common and how influential the use of informal heuristics, approaches, and biases is in their thinking about probability in the school context. Children's underst...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Williams, J. S.
Other Authors:	Amir, G. S.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995.
Subjects:	Cognitive Ability. Elementary School Students. Foreign Countries. Heuristics. Intermediate Grades. Knowledge Level. Learning Processes. Piagetian Theory. Probability. Questionnaires. Student Attitudes. Thinking Skills.