Volume: 6; 2017; 137 pp; Softcover
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Probability and Games
Share this pageBowen Kerins; Darryl Yong; Al Cuoco; Glenn Stevens; Mary Pilgrim
A co-publication of the AMS and IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute
Designed for precollege teachers by a
collaborative of teachers, educators, and mathematicians, Probability
and Games is based on a course offered in the Summer School Teacher
Program at the Park City Mathematics Institute.
This course leads participants through an introduction to
probability and statistics, with particular focus on conditional
probability, hypothesis testing, and the mathematics of election
analysis. These ideas are tied together through low-threshold entry
points including work with real and fake coin-flipping data, short
games that lead to key concepts, and inroads to connecting the topics
to number theory and algebra.
But this book isn't a “course” in the traditional
sense. It consists of a carefully sequenced collection of problem sets
designed to develop several interconnected mathematical themes. These
materials provide participants with the opportunity for authentic
mathematical discovery—participants build mathematical structures by
investigating patterns, use reasoning to test and formalize their
ideas, offer and negotiate mathematical definitions, and apply their
theories and mathematical machinery to solve problems.
Probability and Games is a volume of the book series
“IAS/PCMI—The Teacher Program Series” published by
the American Mathematical Society. Each volume in this series covers
the content of one Summer School Teacher Program year and is
independent of the rest.
Titles in this series are co-published with the Institute for Advanced Study/Park City Mathematics Institute.
Readership
Teachers of middle and high school mathematics.
Reviews & Endorsements
This is exactly the sort of experience to invigorate in-service mathematics teachers in summer seminars.
-- Paul J. Campbell, Mathematics Magazine
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Probability and Games