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Critical Incident #1 My Calculus student Hany described my 'Find the Volume of an American football' activity during his valedictorian speech at the American International School in Egypt graduation ceremony, 1993. Sitting in the audience, I remembered the buzz of focused creativity this activity sparked in my classroom, and thought "How did this come about and how can I do this more often?"
Critical Incident #2 In Argentina, my class was completing exercises on probability such as "You choose the name of a girl from a bag containing 10 girls names and 5 boys names written on pieces of paper. You throw away the paper and choose another from the bag. What is the probability that it is the name of a girl?" The students were able to answer these questions by forming simple fractions and did so with little interest. I thought "Who ever draws names from a bag? Can't probability be made more interesting?"
It wasn't until I arrived in Bristol in 1999 to study for an M Ed that I managed to find the time to try to do something about these thoughts. I formed the research question "How can I embed Probability in a more meaningful, relevant and interesting context?"
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