Nenad Radakovic
Pedagogy of Risk: Why and How Should We Teach Risk in High School Math Classes?
University of Toronto
risk everywhere yet concept risk seldom investigated high school mathematicsafter presenting arguments teaching risk context high school mathematics article describes case study teaching risk two grade 11 classes canadaan allboy independent school 23 boys publicly funded religious school 19 girls 4 boysthe findings suggest students possessed intuitive knowledge risk event assessed likelihood impactfollowing amending pedagogic model risk levinson r kent p pratt kapadia r yogui c 2012 study suggests pedagogy risk include five components 1 knowledge beliefs values 2 judgment impact 3 judgment probability 4 representations 5 estimation riskthese components necessarily appear instruction students decision making chronological order furthermore influence otherthe implication mathematics education meaningful instruction risk go beyond mathematical representations reasoning include components pedagogy riskthe article also illustrates importance reasoning rational numbers rates ratios fractions critical interpretation pedagogy risk