Jane Watson and Lyn English use a chance activity exploring expectation and variation with coin tossing to highlight the importance of understanding the part–whole relationship embodied in percentage and its power to measure and compare for different wholes, in this case different sample sizes.
Funding
Australian Research Council
History
Publication title
Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom
Volume
18
Issue
4
Pagination
14-18
ISSN
1326-0286
Department/School
Faculty of Education
Publisher
Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, Inc.