Two-dice horse race
We analyse the “two-dice horse race” task often used in lower secondary school, in which two ordinary dice are thrown repeatedly and each time the sum of the scores determines which horse (numbered 1 to 12) moves forwards one space.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Mathematics Education Centre
Published in
Teaching StatisticsVolume
38Issue
3Pages
98 - 101Citation
FOSTER, C. and MARTIN, D., 2016. Two-dice horse race. Teaching Statistics, 38 (3), pp.98-101.Publisher
Wiley © The Authors, Teaching Statistics, Teaching Statistics TrustVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2016-05-20Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: FOSTER, C. and MARTIN, D., 2016. Two-dice horse race. Teaching Statistics, 38 (3), pp.98-101, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12108. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.ISSN
0141-982XeISSN
1467-9639Publisher version
Language
- en
