Investigating Probability Concepts of Secondary Pre-service Teachers in a Game Context

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Australian Journal of Teacher Education 
Australian Journal of Teacher Education 
Volume 45 Issue 5 
Article 6 
2020 
Investigating Probability Concepts of Secondary Pre-service 
Investigating Probability Concepts of Secondary Pre-service 
Teachers in a Game Context 
Teachers in a Game Context 
Hem Chand Dayal 
The University of the South Pacific 
Sashi Sharma 
University of Waikato 
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Recommended Citation 
Recommended Citation 
Dayal, H. C., & Sharma, S. (2020). Investigating Probability Concepts of Secondary Pre-service Teachers in 
a Game Context. 
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 45(5). 
http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2020v45n5.6 
This Journal Article is posted at Research Online. 
https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol45/iss5/6 

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Australian Journal of Teacher Education 
Vol 45, 5, May 2020 
91 
Probability Concepts of
Secondary Pre-service Teachers in a Game Context 
Hem Chand Dayal 
The University of the South Pacific 
Sashi Sharma 
The University of Waikato 
Abstract: There is a rich literature on students’ and teachers’ 
intuitions and misconceptions about probability. However, less 
attention has been paid to the development of pre-service teachers’ 
probabilistic thinking in teacher education. Based on this, the second 
author developed a lesson sequence for teaching probability. In