Release the prisoners game

• Tanja Van Hecke ^[1]
  1. [1] University College Ghent

     University College Ghent

     Arrondissement Gent, Bélgica

     
• Localización: Teaching mathematics and its applications, ISSN 0268-3679, Vol. 30, Nº. 1, 2011, págs. 37-42
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article presents the mathematical approach of the optimal strategy to win the ‘Release the prisoners’ game and the integration of this analysis in a math class. Outline lesson plans at three different levels are given, where simulations are suggested as well as theoretical findings about the probability distribution function and its mean value.