Thursday, April 14, 2016: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
3001 (Moscone)
Lead Speaker:
Erin N. Talley
Co-speakers:
Wendy B. Sanchez
and
Jennifer Glendenning
You will learn how high school students learned probability by investigating teenage driving fatalities after a peer died in a car accident. They mastered standards and performed as well as students who learned through traditional probability tasks. Using data on teenage fatalities, we will derive the addition rule of probability.
Presentation Format: 10-12 Session