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Huey, Maryann E.; Baker, Deidra L. – Mathematics Teacher, 2015
Many teachers of required secondary school mathematics classes are introducing statistics and probability topics traditionally relegated to college or AP Statistics courses. As a result, they need guidance in preparing lesson plans and orchestrating effective classroom discussions. In this article, the authors will describe the students' learning…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Causal Models, Secondary School Mathematics, Probability
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Perales, Jose C.; Shanks, David R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
It has been proposed that causal power (defined as the probability with which a candidate cause would produce an effect in the absence of any other background causes) can be intuitively computed from cause-effect covariation information. Estimation of power is assumed to require a special type of counterfactual probe question, worded to remove…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Probability, Cognitive Mapping, Knowledge Representation