The magic of numbers

At the initiative of the head of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Education, Evgeniy Bunimovich, a “new probabilistic-statistical line” will appear in mathematics courses in Moscow schools. “This is the part of mathematics that is directly related to life,” the deputy noted. Now schoolchildren can easily calculate the probability of winning in slot machines or analyze statistical information provided in the media. These are the examples that Honored Teacher Bunimovich cited to illustrate the benefits of the innovation.