Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
probability and statistics:
- Pascal’s triangle
- games involving probability
- early beginnings of statistics and probability
Elaboration
- Pascal, Cardano, Fermat, Bernoulli, Laplace
- ancient games such as dice and the Egyptian game Hounds and Jackals
- Egyptian record keeping
- Graunt and the development of statistics through the need for merchant insurance policies
- forms of tabulating information, leading to the beginnings of probability and statistics
keywords
probability and statistics
early beginnings