期刊名称：International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning
电子版ISSN：1473-0111
出版年度：2000
出版社：Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
摘要：The advent of the National Lottery in the UK provoked widespread interest, and the amount of money spent ontickets exceeded everyone's expectations and, perhaps more surprisingly, spending has continued at a highlevel even after several years! Ignoring the moral debate about whether the government should be encouragingsuch betting on a national scale, we will concentrate here on its implications for mathematics teaching! Ourcontention is that the National Lottery is not only a very useful context for work on combinatorics, but is alsoappropriate for the delivery of parts of the UK National Curriculum for mathematics
