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In-service training for teachers: Teaching conditional probabilities in a socially relevant and didactically meaningful way

Teaching (conditional) probabilities offers particularly great opportunities to address relevant and authentic issues in mathematics education. At the same time, it is a subject area in which human intuition often fails, as shown (to cite just one example) by a Twitter message from Donald Trump in which he propagates that wearing a face mask leads to an 85% probability of contracting Covid-19. Being able to uncover such misconceptions and learn 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.
Therefore, in this workshop we would like to discuss current examples in which conditional probabilities have great relevance. Using these examples, research results on helpful and less helpful strategies will be presented and new methods (e.g. for visualization) will be learned, applied and discussed together.

Speaker: Theresa Büchter (University of Kassel)

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

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