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Risk Literacy in the Context of Stochastics and Mathematical Education
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This paper explores how global environmental challenges — including microplastic pollution and climate change — can be integrated into mathematics education to build risk literacy in secondary school students. Incorporating real-world environmental data into stochastics teaching helps students understand uncertainty and probability in meaningful contexts.
The purpose of this risk literacy study was to explore the ways of integrating examples of global challenges into mathematics education. The examples follow an approach to introduce risk literacy in teacher education along with a curriculum analysis for secondary education in Germany to include risk literacy within the given requirements and constraints. Two main examples, microplastic pollution and extreme events due to climate change, are analysed in the interdisciplinary context of global challenges and their understanding of mathematical knowledge for teaching and learning stochastics.
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