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McCartney, Mark – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
A number of probabilistic experiments are described to estimate e, p and v2, with results from computer simulations being used to investigate convergence. A number of possible classroom exercises and extensions are presented.
Descriptors: Probability, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods
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Benakli, Nadia; Kostadinov, Boyan; Satyanarayana, Ashwin; Singh, Satyanand – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
The goal of this paper is to promote computational thinking among mathematics, engineering, science and technology students, through hands-on computer experiments. These activities have the potential to empower students to learn, create and invent with technology, and they engage computational thinking through simulations, visualizations and data…
Descriptors: Calculus, Probability, Data Analysis, Computation
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Voskoglou, Michael Gr. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2010
We represent the main stages of the process of mathematical modelling as fuzzy sets in the set of the linguistic labels of negligible, low intermediate, high and complete success by students in each of these stages and we use the total possibilistic uncertainty as a measure of students' modelling capacities. A classroom experiment is also…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Experiments, Markov Processes, Matrices
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Chakraborty, S. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2007
In the simple one-dimensional random walk setup, a path is described as follows. Toss a coin. If the result is head, score +1 and move one step forward; otherwise score -1 and move one step backward. One is interested to know the position after a given number of steps. In this paper, once again a coin-tossing experiment is carried out. But this…
Descriptors: Probability, Experiments, Manipulative Materials, Problem Solving