Abstract
Strengthening the teaching of probability requires an adequate training of prospective teachers, which should be based on the prior assessment of their knowledge. Consequently, the aim of this study was to analyse how 139 prospective Spanish mathematics teachers relate the classical and frequentist approaches to probability. To achieve this goal, content analysis was used to categorize the prospective teachers’ answers to a questionnaire with open-ended tasks in which they had to estimate and justify the composition of an urn, basing their answers on the results of 1000 extractions from the urn. Most of the sample proposed an urn model consistent with the data provided; however, the percentage that adequately justified the construction was lower. Although the majority of the sample correctly calculated the probability of an event in a new extraction and chose the urn giving the highest probability, a large proportion of the sample forgot the previously constructed urn model, using only the frequency data. Difficulties, such as equiprobability bias or not perceiving independence of trials in replacement sampling, were also observed for a small part of the sample. These results should be considered in the organisation of probabilistic training for prospective teachers.
Funder
Agencia Española de Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Subject
General Mathematics,Engineering (miscellaneous),Computer Science (miscellaneous)
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