Impossibility and Certainty
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Stephanie Peters; Carlos A. Mejía Colindres
- Source
- The Mathematics Teacher. 112:455-459
- Subject
- media_common.quotation_subject
Mathematics education
Certainty
Impossibility
Mathematics curriculum
Psychology
Mathematics instruction
media_common
- Language
- ISSN
- 2330-0582
0025-5769
Eighth graders had a misconception regarding the concepts of impossibility and certainty as they considered the chances of obtaining a particular color when an atypical two-color spinner was in play.