Random as a mathematics concept is complex and known to be problematic for students. However, chance is the base for many games and playing games is fun. Random Garden is a micro-world that lets the learner manipulate the sample space of a peculiar random generator. According to math literature, the concept of randomness presents some key aspects that characterize its nature. Guess my Garden focuses on: the concept of independence of events generated within a given process at different moments; and the dichotomies fairness vs. unfairness, predictability vs. unpredictability, determinism vs. indeterminism, presence of pattern vs. lack of pattern.
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