Norm chronicles: stories and numbers about risk

Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). 

Together with his friends, careful Prudence and reckless Kelvin, he's also a man on a collision course with probability. 

To understand chance and risk, people use both stories and emotion, and stats, which are brought together in this book. 

 

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Subject(s)Mathematics
Author(s)Michael Blastland, David Spiegelhalter
Age11-14, 14-16
Published2014
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Shelf referenceMA3 BLA
ISN/ISBN9781846686214
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x8u6o

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