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Prodromou, Theodosia; Kynigos, Chronis – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
This study focuses on pre-service teachers' experimentation with a game-modding process in a constructionist setting whilst they experimented with randomness embedded in wider socio-scientific issues that call for decision making under uncertainty. In this process, participants created 39 different game mods. Our observations of the participants…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Decision Making, Constructivism (Learning)
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VanSickle, Ronald L. – Simulation and Games, 1978
Presents ten propositions for increasing the likelihood that simulation game participants will learn to make more adequate decisions as a result of game play. (CMV)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Decision Making, Educational Games, Educational Principles
Weinberg, Sanford B. – 1978
The development of game theory was a response to a need to understand human decision making processes in situations of incomplete or imperfect information. By reducing decision making situations to probability game systems, it is possible to analyze and test various competitive strategies that maximize wins and minimize losses. Although game…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Conflict