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Probability, Problem Solving, and "The Price is Right."

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Wood, Eric – Mathematics Teacher, 1992

This article discusses the analysis of a decision-making process faced by contestants on the television game show "The Price is Right". The included analyses of the original and related problems concern pattern searching, inductive reasoning, quadratic functions, and graphing. Computer simulation programs in BASIC and tables of…

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Learning Activities, Mathematical Applications

Connections: A Lottery, a Computer, and the Number e.

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Flores, Alfinio – Mathematics Teacher, 1993

Describes two activities to introduce or extend the concept of the natural number e. Students conduct a lottery using either a table of random numbers or a computer simulation to link experimental probability results to the theoretical probability and to the number e. (MDH)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Concept Formation, Enrichment Activities