Probability (Middle Grades Mathematics Project) - Softcover

Elizabeth Phillips; Glenda Lappan; Mary Jean Winter; Janet Shroyer; William Fitzgerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201214784 ISBN 13: 9780201214789

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1986

Synopsis

Students become effective problem solvers as they discover significant relationships in mathematics and acquire logical thinking that helps take the "problem" out of problem solving. As students learn to group ideas, make key mathematical connections, and develop strategies, they gain confidence in meeting a range of mathematical challenges. Teacher Source Books contain reproducible worksheets, teacher instruction models, review problems, a unit test, and complete answers. Probability/Grades 6-9

About this title

From the Back Cover

Probability, by Phillips, Lappan, Winter, and Fitzgerald, introduces the concepts of probability-fair games, equally likely outcomes, expected value, simulations, Pascal's Triangle, and the binominal distribution.

About the Author

William Fitzgerald is a university lecturer in classics and fellow at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books, including "Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position" and "Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination,"

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201214784
• ISBN 13: 9780201214789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 191