Naslov
Pre-service mathematics teachers’ understanding of conditional probability in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Autori
Bruckler, Franka Miriam ; Milin Šipuš, Željka

Izvornik
European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education (2301-251X) 11 (2022), 1; 89-104

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
conditional probability, context of a probability problem, pre-service mathematics teachers, COVID-19 pandemic, media in teaching of probability and statistics

Sažetak
During the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic had a secondary effect of increased media content loaded with mathematical, often probabilistic information (and misinformation). Our exploratory study investigates the probabilistic intuitions, misconceptions, biases, and fallacies in conditional probability reasoning of mathematics teacher candidates in the context of the pandemic. The pre-service mathematics teachers who participated in our study were given a questionnaire with five contextual conditional probability problems, all formulated similarly to media statements often encountered when discussing the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings confirm the previous findings on biases and fallacies related to conditional probability problems with a social context. They were also indicative of several types of errors (both numerical and logical) as more common than expected. Our results also reveal that pre-service mathematics teachers apparently separate the content learned in the classroom from the application of the knowledge in critical examination of the information to which they are daily exposed by the media.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Matematika, Obrazovne znanosti (psihologija odgoja i obrazovanja, sociologija obrazovanja, politologija obrazovanja, ekonomika obrazovanja, antropologija obrazovanja, neuroznanost i rano učenje, pedagoške discipline)

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