Bøger af Egan J. Chernoff

The teaching and learning of mathematics in British Columbia has a long and storied history. An integral part of the past 50 years of this history has been Vector: Journal of the British Columbia Association of Mathematics Teachers. This volume, which presents ten memorable articles from each of the past five decades provides an opportunity to share this rich history.

This book classifies and discusses in detail the three different research periods on students' and people's intuitions and difficulties concerning probability: early research focused on cognitive development, a period of heuristics and biases programs, and the current period marked by a multitude of foci, approaches and theoretical frameworks.