ERIC Number: EJ1253850
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jun
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-2379-2981
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Teaching Risk and Probability: Building the Monopoly® Board Game into a Probability Simulator
Gazdula, Joe; Farr, Richard
Management Teaching Review, v5 n2 p133-143 Jun 2020
This article describes the adaptation and use of the Monopoly® board game as a simple simulator to help introduce the principles of probability and risk. It focusses on teaching experiences in an undergraduate business program and offers a new approach to teaching probability and risk with dice to produce a collaborative simulated gaming environment. It allows students to be actively involved in developing the probability of throwing dice numbers and the analysis of risk and decision making in a competitive environment. Concluding with a probability analysis technique, it allows students to reflect on formal and informal approaches to decision making in risk environments and helps build communication for discussion, collaborative learning, and self-analysis among students.
Descriptors: Risk, Probability, Learning Activities, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Decision Making, Active Learning, Simulation, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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