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It has been noted by educational researchers (Fischbein & Schnarch, 1997) that students tend to have common misconceptions in their understanding of probability.  

• Representativeness

• Negative and Positive Recency

• Compound and Simple Events

• Effects of Sample Size

• Heuristic of Availability

• Time Axis

• High Exposure  

You can use our Interactive Quiz to see exactly which misconceptions your students may have before the start of the probability lesson.  This will give you an opportunity to pre-assess what notions your students have about probability prior to teaching the lesson.  You could, therefore, prepare more appropriate questions for each individual class or student.