Prob Sim download

Prob Sim Introduction:

Prob Sim 1.5 is a Macintosh application designed for teaching probability via simulations. To model a probabilistic situation, you:

· construct a “Mixer” containing the elementary events of interest

· sample from the Mixer after specifying replacement options, sample size, and number of repetitions

· searcher for or count specified events of interest in that and subsequent samples.

The program makes the last step especially easy. Once analyses have been conducted on one sample, you can press a button to see the results of the same analyses performed on a new random sample.

Prob Sim is especially useful for mathematics teachers striving to teach students probability in line with recommendations offered by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in their Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.

Also included with the software is a User’s Guide and Instructional Activities. These are both pdf files, and you will need Acrobat Reader to read them.

System Requirements:

Prob Sim was written in for Mac Classic computers in 1992, and runs on all Mac computers up through the "PowerPC" era of about 2007. More specifically you need:

· Any Macintosh computer with 1MB of RAM or more
· MacOS 6.0.5 - 9.2.2 or MacOS X with the Classic environment installed
· 68000 or PowerPC processor, but NOT Intel processors

We have tested it on recent versions of Macintosh’s operating system (including OS X 10.4) and it appears to work well. But we cannot guaranty that it will continue to do so, and we are not planning any future updates.

Download:

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