

Uri Wilensky uses StarLogo towards a different goal: to help learners develop their intuitive conceptions of probabilistic
ideas. In Wilensky's chapter, "Learning Probability through Paradox and Programming," he presents a case study of a
learner who uses programming to help resolve a probability paradox, and in the process develops stronger intuitions
about randomness and distribution-and the connections between them. Wilensky's study illustrates that the primary
obstacles to learning probability are conceptual and epistemological, and it shows how programming can play a
powerful role in learning mathematics by making hidden assumptions explicit and concrete.