References
Last updated May 15, 1996
- Using Statistics by Travers, Stout, Swift, and Sextro.
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1985.
I first heard of this problem from Dr. Kenneth Travers. You
can find a discussion of the cereal box problem and other expected
value problems in this book.
- The Cereal Box Problem by Jesse Wilkins.
In preparation.
This paper has an elaboration of the mathematics behind this problem.
It should be available soon (probably in Mathematics Teacher).
- Fun With Probability by Mike Cornell
This is an activity on the same problem.
Check it out! He also has downloadable materials (worksheets and Excel files) in addition
to data collected from several schools.
There are also several good activities on probability available through
the MSTE Mathematics Lessons and Software Database. Choose "probability"
as the content area and do the search.
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