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Abrahamson, Dor; Janusz, Ruth M.; Wilensky, Uri – Journal of Statistics Education, 2006
ProbLab is a probability-and-statistics unit developed at the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University. Students analyze the combinatorial space of the 9-block, a 3-by-3 grid of squares, in which each square can be either green or blue. All 512 possible 9-blocks are constructed and assembled in a "bar…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Grade 6, Scientific Concepts, Middle School Students
Abrahamson, Dor – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
The paper describes the rationale and 10-day implementation in a 5th-grade classroom (n=19) of an experimental ratio-and-proportion instructional design. In this constructivist-phenomenological design, coming from our theoretical perspective, design research, and domain analysis, students: (1) link "real-world" and "mathematical" objects…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design, Concept Formation, Mathematics Instruction