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By Marcel Danesi

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ISBN-13: 9783319322780

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This ebook presents a primary reassessment of arithmetic schooling within the electronic period. It constitutes a brand new approach of the way info and information are processed by means of introducing new interconnective and interactive pedagogical techniques. Math schooling is catching up on expertise, as classes and fabrics use electronic resources and assets a growing number of. The time has come to judge this new dynamic, which transcends all prior use of ancillary units to complement lecture room math guideline. Interactivity and interconnectivity with the web international of math and math texts (such as tv courses and websites) may be built-in with our conventional modes for supply of math instruction.

This ebook appears to be like at how this integration can spread virtually by means of making use of those correct pedagogical rules to undemanding subject matters comparable to numeration, mathematics, algebra, tale difficulties, combinatorics, and uncomplicated chance thought. The booklet additional exemplifies how arithmetic should be hooked up to themes in pop culture, details applied sciences, and different such domain names.

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The MHP was named after television quiz show host Monty Hall who was the presenter of Let’s Make a Deal. It was formulated as a problem in probability theory by Selvin in 1975. The contestants on the show had to select from three doors that hid different prizes. The problem goes like this, broken down into stages: 1. There are three doors: A, B, and C. Behind one is a new car, behind the other two are goats. 2. The contestant chooses one door, say A. 3. He or she has a 1=3 probability of selecting the car.

It goes like this (Elwes 2014: 331): A suspect is being tried for burglary. At the scene of the crime, police found a strand of the burglar’s hair. Forensic tests showed that it matched the suspect’s own hair. The forensic scientist testified that the chance of a random person producing such a matching is 1/2000. The prosecutor’s fallacy is to conclude that the probability of the suspect being guilty must therefore be 1999/2000, damning evidence indeed. This is an example of specious or fallacious reasoning.

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