TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Özel, Elif
A1  - Nelson, Jonathan D.
A1  - Bertram, Lara
A1  - Martignon, Laura
T1  - Playing Entropy Mastermind can Foster Children’s Information-Theoretical Intuitions
JF  - Frontiers in Education
N2  - Conceptual descriptions and measures of information and entropy were established in the twentieth century with the emergence of a science of communication and information. Today these concepts have come to pervade modern science and society, and are increasingly being recommended as topics for science and mathematics education. We introduce a set of playful activities aimed at fostering intuitions about entropy and describe a primary school intervention that was conducted according to this plan. Fourth grade schoolchildren (8–10 years) played a version of Entropy Mastermind with jars and colored marbles, in which a hidden code to be deciphered was generated at random from an urn with a known, visually presented probability distribution of marble colors. Children prepared urns according to specified recipes, drew marbles from the urns, generated codes and guessed codes. Despite not being formally instructed in probability or entropy, children were able to estimate and compare the difficulty of different probability distributions used for generating possible codes.
KW  - -
KW  - information
KW  - entropy
KW  - uncertainty
KW  - Max-Ent
KW  - codemaking
KW  - codebreaking
KW  - gamified learning
KW  - spielbasiertes Lernen
KW  - Shannon‘sche-Entropie
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:frei129-opus4-8990
SN  - 2504-284X
SS  - 2504-284X
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.595000
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.595000
VL  - 6
PB  - Frontiers Media S.A.
ER  -