Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Cambridge University Press
This online course explored the importance of probability, identified current teaching approaches and considered alternatives, thereby providing an informed rationale for teaching this subject. It looked at the frequency-based approach and tree diagrams in detail, showing learners how to plan a learning sequence that incorporated practical experimental work and data gathering. The course finished by reviewing the type of questions that are commonly used in examinations.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
David Spiegelhalter
Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk
Cambridge University Press
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate the current teaching of probability in schools.
- Apply frequency-based experimental and simulation approaches to tackling problems in probability.
- Model conditional probability scenarios, including topical real-world situations, using experiments and simulations.
- Compare theoretical and experimental approaches, focusing on the gap between ‘real-world’ and abstract treatments of probability.
- Reflect on the potential of frequency-based approaches to make the teaching of probability more meaningful, and to effectively tackle challenging exam-style questions.
Syllabus
- Consideration of probability from everyday experience, and a review of how it is currently taught
- Theoretical and experimental approaches, extending to consideration of frequencies
- Conditional probability and data modelling
- Representation of data, including frequency trees and Venn diagrams
- Set theory
- Independent and mutually exclusive events
Issued on 19th August 2018
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