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Supply, Anne-Sophie; Wijns, Nore; Van Dooren, Wim; Onghena, Patrick – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
The many studies with coin-tossing tasks in literature show that the concept of randomness is challenging for adults as well as children. Systematic errors observed in coin-tossing tasks are often related to the representativeness heuristic, which refers to a mental shortcut that is used to judge randomness by evaluating how well a set of random…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Preschool Children, Prediction, Thinking Skills