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Scholastic

Scholastic: The Power of Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn and reinforce skills for strategies to identify favorable and total outcomes, calculating simple and compound probability, sampling and proportions and using probability concepts to solve real-world problems.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Probability What Are the Odds?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson introduces students to experimental and theoretical probability using spinners and trials with pennies. Students also research careers that involve probability, and create a video presentation. It provides an assessment and...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Apply division to determine the probability of outcomes with a racing game.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fire!, Probability, and Chaos

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students will simulate the probability of a forest fire then graphing the data.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Experimental Probability

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Students will extend their understanding of probability by continuing to conduct experiments, this time with four-colored spinners. They will compare experimental results to expected results by first conducting an experiment, then...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Probability: Targeted Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this lesson plan, students will be able to calculate probability for real-life situations.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Ideas That Lead to Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan sets the ground work for an introduction to and then exploring the concepts that are the foundation for probability. Lots of resources are available for teachers and learners at this website.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Intro to the Concept of Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to introduce students to the concepts of probability. Students learn about the definition of, outcomes in, and calculations of experimental probability. Students use an...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Tree Diagrams and Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan helps students develop tree diagrams and figure probability of events based on diagrams. Lots of resources are available to support teachers and students at this website.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Conditional and Simultaneous Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan deals with conditional probability and the probability of simultaneous events. Problems included in this instructional activity tend to have solutions that are counterintuitive. This presents an opportunity to...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Probability and Sports

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan. In it, young scholars explore where probability can be applied to professional sports. NCTM standards are listed for this lesson plan.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Introduction to Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson encourages the students to learn about probability within a group setting. It allows them to help each other gain a better understanding of how probability works. It teaches how to compute probability of basic problems and...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: The Old Lady and Probability

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this lesson, learners will sing the song There Was an Old Lady to learn about the topic of probability. Using a spinner with the lyrics from the song, students will play a game and record the number of times each topic from the song...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Probability: Playing With Fire

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students use probability to determine how likely it is for each tree in a small simulated forest to catch on fire.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Playing With Probability

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson teaches students about theoretical and experimental probability through a series of work stations.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dartboard Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will find probability of events presented in a geometric context. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Other

Link to Learning: Data Management and Probability

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses Data Management and Probability expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
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Other

Link to Learning: Data Management and Probability

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses Data Management and Probability expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's Your Guess? (Probability)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will allow the student to experience a series of informal comparisons, The student will explore the chances of various outcomes of an event. The student will use vocabulary associated with probability.This lesson plan was...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The purpose of this lesson is to begin the process of helping students to learn the basic principles of probability. The students will also collect data, interpret data, and determine the fairness of the game rock, paper, scissors.This...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fire: Modeling Probability

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson students will understand probability and chance and understand the results of probability and chance in real life situations.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Understanding Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
For this lesson, learners will learn what probability is; ways to express probability as a ratio, a decimal, and a percentage; and how to solve problems based on probability.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Theoretical vs Experimental Probability

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will be able to see the relationship between theoretical probability and experimental probability by computing both at the same time.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Probability and Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Mini lessons are provided for learning concepts in the world of probability and statistics. Topics include counting and probability, permutations, combinations, independent and dependent events, and distributions. Links to online...

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