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Cumulative Subject Index for 1986-2000

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Probability

44 Probability and Statistics Programs, Sep 1987, 490

Activities: Area Models and Expected Value, Nov 1987, 650-658

645-648

Activities: Area Models for Probability, Mar 1987, 217-223

Activities: Explorations with Chance, Apr 1992, 280-2, 288-90

Applications: Charting a Classroom Cold Epidemic, Mar 1987, 204-206

Applications: More on Apportionment, Oct 1994, 560-564

Applications: Queues and Simulations for Secondary School Students, May 1986, 343-347

Applications: Using Technology to Understand the Jury Decision-Making Process, Feb 1994, 110-114

Are Most Fractions Reduced?, Apr 1994, 236-238

Are Seven-Game Baseball Playoffs Fairer?, Oct 1992, 528-531

The Art and Techniques of Simulation, Dec 1988, 754

A Bernoulli Investigation. Dec. 2000, 756–57

The Big Loser. Mar. 1999, 208-13

Bingo Games: Turning Student Intuitions into Investigations in Probability and Number Sense. Mar. 2000, 200–206 (see also Oct. 2000, 577)

A Bird in the Hand, Nov 1996, 674–77

The Birthday Problem Again?, May 1993, 373-377

The Birthday Problem Explained, Jan 1997, 20–22

A Brief Look at the History of Probability and Statistics, Nov 1991, 623-630

The Broken Dice and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance, Oct 1994, 571-572

Buffon's Needle Problem for a Rectangular Grid, Mar 1995, 205-8 See also Nov 1995, 720, 722

Chance Encounters: Probability in Education, Sep 1992, 491

Chuck-a-luck: Learning Probability Concepts with Games of Chance, Feb 1988, 121-123

Coin Tossing, Nov 1996, 642–45

Conditional Probability: Its Place in the Mathematics Curriculum, Jan 1995, 12-17

Connecting Research to Teaching: Probability and Statistics, Mar 1993, 244-248

Connections: A Lottery, a Computer, and the Number e, Nov 1993, 652-655

Counting Pizza Pieces and Other Combinatorial Problems, Jan 1988, 22-26

Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics: Dealing with Data and Chance, Sep 1993, 500

Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction, 2d ed, Nov 1989, 657

Editorial: A Focus on Data Analysis, Feb 1990, 79

Elementary Probability, Dec 1994, 720

Elements of Game Theory, Oct 1986, 565

Elevator Probabilities: Chances of Coincidences, Jan 1991, 64-65

Expected Value and the Wheel of Fortune Game, Jan 1994, 13-17

Exploring Different Dice, May 1993, 380-382

Exploring Probability, Dec 1988, 755-756

Exploring the Birthday Problem with Spreadsheets. May 1999, 407-11.

Fair Game, Apr 1990, 331

Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability, May 1988, 404

Finding Normal Probabilities with a Hand-Held Calculator, Nov 1988, 651-652

The Football Coach's Dilemma: Should We Go for 1 or 2 Points First?, Dec 1995, 731-733

The Fourth Way to Sample k Objects from a Collection of n, Feb 1988, 146-149

Game Theory: An Application of Probability, Feb 1987, 138-142

Geometric Probability, Oct 1991, 570

Graphical Aids for Stochastic Processes: An Interactive Tutorial in Six Modules, Feb 1989, 144

HiMAP: Module 11, Applications of Geometrical Probability, Apr 1990, 331

A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750, Dec 1990, 752-753

Illinois Institute for Statistics Education, Feb 1989, 150

An Illustration of Limits, Dec 1986, 722-723

Implementing the Standards: Statistics and Probability, Feb 1990, 113-118

Integrated Mathematics Course 1, Dec 1991, 768

Introducing Probabilities, Oct 1991, 542-543

Introduction to Probability, Feb 1994, 132

Koetke's Challenge, Dec 1992, 761

Lotteries: Who Wins, Who Loses?, Jan 1993, 91

Maalox® Lottery: A Novel Probability Problem, Sep 1987, 455-456

Mad Scramble, Oct 1991, 578

Matching Garage-Door Openers, Mar 1992, 217-219

Mathematical Models of Waiting Time, Nov 1990, 622-627

A Mathematical Study of the Game "Twenty-Four Points." Dec. 1999, 828-32

The Mathematics Achievement Product, Oct 1992, 587-588

Mathematics Applied: An Introduction to Mathematical Modeling, Oct 1991, 573

The Mathematics of Conflict, Sep 1990, 484

The Mathematics of Games, Oct 1990, 576

Mathematics with Applications, Oct 1987, 596

The Microcomputer as an Alternative to Binomial Tables, Nov 1986, 658-664

Microcomputer-Assisted Mathematics: Permutations and Combinations, May 1987, 403-407

Modern Elementary Probability and Statistics with Statistical Programming in SAS, MINITAB, and BMDP, Dec 1990, 754

Monty's Dilemma: Should You Stick or Switch?, Apr 1991, 252-256

Motivating A-Level Mathematics, Oct 1987, 596-597

The Nature of Mathematics, 5th ed, Oct 1987, 597

The Nature of Mathematics, 6th ed, Feb 1992, 152-154

A Note on Permutations, Oct 1988, 551-553

Numbers, Please! The Telephone Directory and Probability, Dec 1997, 704–5

Playing Twenty Questions with Attribute Blocks, Dec 1993, 765-769

Please Check Your Telephone Directory, Feb 1986, 104-106

Plinko, Probability and Pascal, Apr 1995, 282-285

A Primer in Probability, Oct 1991, 575

Probability: A Noncalculus Introduction, Mar 1987, 255

Probability Activities: For Problem Solving and Skills Reinforcement, Sep 1993, 504

Probability and Intuition, Jan 1989, 52-53

Probability and the Seating Chart, May 1988, 393-397

Probability, Computer Simulation and Mathematics, Jan 1990, 22-25

Probability in Ancient Times; or, Shall I Go Down after the Philistines?, Mar 1989, 211-213

Probability Lab No. A-262, Sep 1991, 487

Probability, Matrices, and Bugs in Trees, May 1998, 402–6, 412–15

The Probability of Winning a Lotto Jackpot Twice. Sept. 2000, 518–20

Probability, Problem Formulation, and Two-Player Games, Mar 1994, 154-159

A Probability Problem Involving Calculus, May 1991, 402-405

Probability, Problem Solving, and The Price Is Right, Feb 1992, 103-109

Probability Theory (First Steps), Sep 1988, 496

Products, 1995, 530-31

Publications, 1997, 756

Publications, 1998, 190

The Quantitative Literacy Project, Dec 1990, 757-758

Random Variables: Simulations and Surprising Connections. Jan. 1999, 4-9

Reader Reflections, 1995, 256, 435, 504, 509-10, 512, 720, 722

Reader Reflections, 1996, 27, 54–55, 194, 711

Reader Reflections, 1997, 478, 676

Reader Reflections, 1998, 364, 818–19

Reader Reflections, Jan. 1999, 3, Apr. 1999, 281, 347

Realistic Problem Formulation and Problem Solving, Sep 1997, 430–34

Representing Probabilities with Pipe Diagram, May 1996, 378–82

The Return of Matt Dillon, Mar 1995, 192-95 See also Dec 1995, 725

Revisiting Some Counting Problems in Discrete Mathematics, Mar 1988, 183-186

Scope Math: A Computer Mathematics Course for Middle and Junior High School, Jan 1989, 67-68

A Simple Probability Problem, Mar 1992 191-195

Six-Legged Math, Oct 1987, 524-526

Some Mathematical Applications of Pari-mutuel Wagering, May 1987, 394-399

Some Surprising Probabilities from Bingo, Dec 1993, 726-731

The Spaghetti Problem Problem. May 2000, 422–26

Spreadsheets: Powerful Tools for Probability Simulations, Oct 1997, 572–79

Statistics and Probability in Modern Life, 5th ed, Nov 1992, 692-693

Statistics and the Academy Awards. Mar. 1999, 219-21

A Summer Program in Probability and Statistics for Inner-City Seventh Graders, Apr 1988, 310-314

Teaching Probability-Some Legal Applications, Feb 1987, 150-153

Teaching Probability through Modeling Real Problems, Apr 1994, 232-235

Topics in Applied Probability, Jan 1988, 77

An Unexpected Expected Value, Feb 1993, 118-120

Who's Winning at Monopoly Junior? Mar. 1999, 197-203

WITPO (What Is the Probability Of), Apr 1991, 258-264

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