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Promoting Teachers’ Understanding of Risk in Socio-Scientific Issues

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Publications

Publications marked ** are preliminary and not yet published, so we request no quotation, and no circulation of the papers except from this website.

Pratt, D., Ainley, J., Kent, P., Levinson, R., Yogui, C., and Kapadia, R. (2009, July). Informal inferential reasoning as a contextualised risk-based enterprise. Presentation at the Sixth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy. Brisbane: University of Queensland. [This paper was an early version of the paper submitted to Mathematical Thinking and Learning - see below]

Kapadia, R., Kent, P., Pratt, D., Levinson, R., and Yogui, C. (2010, April). Promoting a cross-curricular pedagogy of risk in mathematics and science classrooms. In Joubert, M. and Andrews, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh British Congress for Mathematics Education (Manchester, UK), pages 121 - 128.  Published as Informal Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, volume 30(1). PDF TURS-paper-for-BCME-2010-conference.pdf


** Pratt, D., Ainley, J., Kent, P., Levinson, R., Yogui, C., and Kapadia, R. (in press). Informal inferential reasoning as a contextualised risk-based enterprise. To appear in Mathematical Thinking and Learning.
PDFTURS-draft-paper-for-MTL-journal.pdf

** Kent, P., Pratt, D., Levinson, R., Yogui, C., and Kapadia, R. (accepted). Teaching uncertainty and risk in mathematics and science. Invited presentation for the ICOTS-8 Conference, Slovenia, July 2010.
PDFTURS-paper-for-ICOTS-2010-conference.pdf

Pratt, D., and Yogui, C. (accepted). A constructionist approach to a contested area of knowledge. Submitted to the Constructionism 2010 conference, Paris, August 2010.

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