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Publication Date: 2011-Mar
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Release the Prisoners Game
Van Hecke, Tanja
Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, v30 n1 p37-42 Mar 2011
This article presents the mathematical approach of the optimal strategy to win the "Release the prisoners" game and the integration of this analysis in a math class. Outline lesson plans at three different levels are given, where simulations are suggested as well as theoretical findings about the probability distribution function and its mean value.
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Probability, Mathematics Instruction, Statistics, Lesson Plans, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics, Mathematical Models, Simulation, Games
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