Abstract

ORTIZ, Juan Jesús; BATANERO, Carmen  and  CONTRERAS, José Miguel. Knowledge of future teachers in relation to the idea of fair games. Relime [online]. 2012, vol.15, n.1, pp.63-91. ISSN 2007-6819.

In this paper we assess pre-service primary school teachers' knowledge in relation to fair games. Common knowledge of content is assessed through the responses given by 167 pre-service primary school teachers to two open-problems. In addition, two components of didactic knowledge are inferred trough the participants analyses, when working in small groups: (a) Specialized knowledge of content is assessed from their analyses of the tasks' mathematical content; and (b) knowledge of content and students is assessed from their assessment of responses provided by primary school students. Results suggest the need to reinforce the training of pre-service teachers both in the mathematical and the didactic knowledge.

Keywords : Probability; Fair game; Teacher training.

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