Exploring students' intuitive ideas of randomness using an iPod shuffle activity

Laura Ziegler; Joan B Garfield

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9639.2012.00531.x

Exploring students' intuitive ideas of randomness using an iPod shuffle activity

Laura Ziegler, Joan B Garfield

Educational Psychology

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This article presents an activity that engages students in considering characteristics of a random sequence, in this case, a randomly generated playlist of songs using the iPod shuffle feature. Students examine simulated sequences of randomly generated songs from a small music library in order to identify characteristics that are used to develop rules that they then apply to judge whether three suspicious lists are likely to be nonrandom.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2-7
Number of pages	6
Journal	Teaching Statistics
Volume	35
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2012.00531.x
State	Published - Mar 2013

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Enquiry based learning
Randomness
Statistical literacy
Teaching

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