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Download full textWilliams, J. S.; Amir, G. S. – 1995
This study sought to determine: (1) what children understand about "chance" when they begin secondary school?; and (2) how common and how influential the use of informal heuristics, approaches, and biases is in their thinking about probability in the school context. Children's understanding of chance, attributions of events to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Heuristics
