Broekmann, Irene Anne2016-08-302016-08-302016-08-30http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20977A Research Report submitted to the Faculty of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education by course-work and research report. Johannesburg, 1992This research report investigates the psychological dimensions in the learning and teaching of probability theory. It begins by outlining some problems arising from the author's own experience in the learning and teaching of probability theory, and develops a theoretical position using the Theory of Activity. This theory places education within the broad social context and recognises the centrality of affective aspects of cognition. [Abbreviated abstract. Open document to view full version]enMathematics--Study and teaching--South Africa--Psychological aspectsProbabilities--Study and teaching--South Africa.Learning, Psychology ofThesis