Further training for teachers: Teaching conditional probabilities in a socially relevant and didactically meaningful way

Teaching (conditional) probabilities offers particularly great opportunities to deal with relevant and authentic questions in mathematics lessons. At the same time, it is a subject area in which human intuition often fails, as (to name just one example) a Twitter message from Donald Trump shows, in which he propagates that wearing a face mask leads to an 85% probability of contracting Covid-19. Being able to uncover such misunderstandings and learning how to deal confidently with (conditional) probabilities is therefore of great importance.
By using such authentic questions and appropriate methods of illustration, this subject area can become an exciting and formative teaching experience for teachers and learners.
In this workshop, we would therefore like to discuss current examples in which conditional probabilities are highly relevant. Using these examples, research results on helpful and less helpful strategies will be presented and new methods (e.g. for visualization) will be introduced, applied and discussed together.

Speaker: Theresa Büchter (University of Kassel)

Registration deadline: 30.05.2023
Registration via the website https://goto.uni-kassel.de/go/anmeldung_lehrkraeftefortbildung