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Publication Date: 2007-Jul
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A Simple Game to Derive Lognormal Distribution
Omey, E.; Van Gulck, S.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, v38 n5 p689-695 Jul 2007
In the paper we present a simple game that students can play in the classroom. The game can be used to show that random variables can behave in an unexpected way: the expected mean can tend to zero or to infinity; the variance can tend to zero or to infinity. The game can also be used to introduce the lognormal distribution. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Probability, Equations (Mathematics), Validity
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