Many times we consider how to provide our creativity and activity, that our students are involved in the task but that it has a dual function. On the one hand, entertain and, on the other, lay the foundations of mathematical concepts.
For this it is important that the teacher has clear the educational purpose of the activity, how it relates to the content to be treated and what will be the different moments of the class, since it will be necessary:
Gambling is a special kind of games, since they do not allow to predict results, that is, they do not use the strategy of the player to reach them, but they are totally informal.
We can differentiate the causal from the casual. The first term will be related to situations that were caused by some action, the second is quite the opposite since the situations are related to chance.
Chance is perfectly explicit through gambling.
Now we can ask ourselves what mathematical concept is learned from chance: the concept of probability.
This concept, which today forms part of our daily life and provides us with elements to harmonize the graphic or textual information that we receive, is presented as a new concept that will be constructed from the space in the classroom.
It is through game situations that our students can explore the relationships that are generated between the data that intervene in the probabilities discovering regularities. That is to say:
What data were repeated more times?
Which was repeated less?
Is it likely that the game comes out zero or is impossible?
Are the data that was repeated more likely to recur or not recur?
All these questions are those that we will evaluate and socialize in the moment of reflection, that is, in the moment after the game.
There are many variations in traditional games: cards, dice, bingo ...
The selection will be important and the modality of the game even more, since the work in small groups can be very valuable.
The perinola
The spinner
The "wheel of fortune"
Dices
The important thing will be the written record that you get from the game and dump it in a graph that reflects what data came out more times, than less ... clearly. It can be a bar graph, a pictogram or just a well-organized recount.
These data will help us to work on the analysis of the concepts: probable, possible, improbable and impossible, endowing our activity with mathematical meaning.
https://conjeturasdeunamatematica.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/los-juegos-de-azar-y-las-matematicas/
https://biblioteca.unirioja.es/tfe_e/TFE000727.pdf
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