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Direct linkTaylor, Wendy; Stacey, Kaye – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2014
This article presents "The Two Children Problem," published by Martin Gardner, who wrote a famous and widely-read math puzzle column in the magazine "Scientific American," and a problem presented by puzzler Gary Foshee. This paper explains the paradox of Problems 2 and 3 and many other variations of the theme. Then the authors…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Probability, Mathematical Concepts
