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ERIC Number: EJ743746
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
Reference Count: 9
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0045-0685
Coin on a Chessboard
Turner, Paul
Australian Mathematics Teacher, v62 n3 p12-16 2006
If one rolls a coin across a chessboard and it comes to rest on the board, what is the probability that it covers some corner of one of the grid squares? The online magazine "Plus" (2004) posed this problem for students to solve. It is a useful problem for several reasons: it introduces the idea of probability in a continuous sample space, it has a historical background worth exploring and it can be simulated easily using a computer program. (Contains 6 figures.)
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Games, Probability, Simulation, Computer Software, Experiments, Mathematical Concepts, Geometric Concepts
Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT). GPO Box 1729, Adelaide, South Australia 5001. Tel: +61 8 8363 0288; Fax: +61 8 8362 9288; e-mail: office@aamt.edu.au; Web site: http://www.aamt.edu.au.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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