statisticsfun
How To Calculate Conditional Probability Boxes With Defects
Branch out with a tree diagram. A presentation on complex probability explains the process of creating a tree diagram to represent the possible outcomes in a scenario. It then uses the diagram to calculate the...
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Boy Girl Conditional Probability
The key to understanding conditional probability is understanding the context of the problem presented. The video presents two questions with a subtle difference between them, then teaches scholars to decipher the difference and...
statisticsfun
How to Calculate Probability With and Without Replacement Using Marbles
Math can give you an advantage in many games, you just have to know where to find it! Learn how to calculate probability to decide on a strategy to better your chance of winning. The video examines the difference between compound...
TED-Ed
Schrödinger's Cat: A Thought Experiment in Quantum Mechanics
Can something be both alive and dead at the same time? According to quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger, the answer is yes. Watch this short video to learn how the wave and particle nature of all matter allows objects to be in two states...
Curated OER
Probability
A straightforward math video provides an easy-to-understand explanation of probability. It is meant to be a first foray into the topic and would be useful in an elementary school classroom. The example given would be appropriate for use...
Curated OER
How Do You Find the Probability of a Simple Event?
A bag contains marbles of different colors. You put your hand in the bag to grab a marble. What are your chances of picking a given color? Learn how to set up this probability word problem and then solve it.
Curated OER
Independent and Dependent Events
With a well organized and clear explanation, this video will help students better understand independent and dependent events. Clear visual examples are provided and fully explaining.
Curated OER
How Do You Find the Probability of a Simple Event?
A bag contains marbles of different colors. You put your hand in the bag to grab a marble. What are your chances of picking a given color? Learn how to set up this probability word problem and then solve it.
Corbett Maths
Probability Scale
Scale up your knowledge of probability. Young mathematicians watch a video that describes probability in terms of a scale. They see how probability is a value between zero and one, representing a continuum from impossible to certain.
Corbett Maths
Probability of Not Happening
You'll want to make sure the lesson actually happens. Young mathematicians watch a video to learn about the probability of an event not happening. They see how subtracting the probability of the event happening from one gives the...
Corbett Maths
Conditional Probability
Scholars' knowledge of probability depends on whether they watch the useful video. Young mathematicians view a short video to learn about the probability of dependent events. The narrator works through several examples to ensure viewers...
Corbett Maths
Sample Space Diagrams
Sample the resource and decide to use it all. Viewers of the informative YouTube video learn to use tables to represent sample spaces for compound events. They use these tables to help determine probabilities.
Corbett Maths
The OR Rule
Use the resource or lament lost opportunities. Scholars watch a short video to learn about the probability of compound events. First, they see how to find probability of or events that are mutually exclusive. They then use the addition...
Corbett Maths
Probability
Simple probability can be quite simple. An instructive video describes how to determine probabilities by considering possible outcomes. It uses a variety of contexts as examples to cover the topic.
Numberphile
Consecutive Coin Flips
In a consecutive coin flip game, some outcomes far exceed others. Viewers watch a video in the Numberphile Coins series that shows that a heads-tail sequence is more likely than a heads-heads sequence. This occurs even though the...
Numberphile
Pi and Buffon's Matches
There's no match for a helpful lesson about pi. Viewers of a video in the Numberphile "Pi" series watch as the narrator tries out the Buffon needle experiment with matches. The video explains how pi relates to the probability...
TED-Ed
Can You Solve the Prisoner Boxes Riddle?
Viewers must save the day for their favorite band by helping them find their instruments or the long-anticipated concert will be canceled. The show must go on, so get busy solving this riddle.
statisticsfun
How to Calculate the Odds of Winning the Lottery
Feel like a winner with an engaging video that shows the classic problem of calculating the odds of winning the lottery. Making use of digital tools, the author demonstrates ways to solve the problem numerically by using a...
Khan Academy
MTEL Math Practice Test: 41-45
Finishing up this practice MTEL Math test, Sal guides the viewer through questions 41-45, explaining his thought processes. The problem set in this video features skills such as median and mean, percentages, and probability, all of which...
Curated OER
How Do You Find the Probability of a Complement and a Probability for Consecutive Years?
Probability, place, and time. There is a lot going on in this real-world word problem. I highly recommend watching this video to see how the instructor sorts out and sets up all the information to solve this problem. Take notes and pay...
Virtual Nerd
How Do You Find the Probability of Independent Events?
A word problem about probability which asks about two events occurring. Are the events independent of each other? Is this a compound events problem? How do you approach solving this word problem? The instructor explains just how to solve...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Are Random Triangles Acute or Obtuse?
An MIT mathematics professor examines the probability of a random triangle being either obtuse or acute in a video [32:44] on geometrical probability. Video is accompanied by a teacher's guide, transcript, and several links on linear...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Broken Stick Experiment: Triangles/random Numbers/probability
This learning video is designed to develop critical thinking in students by encouraging them to work from basic principals to solve a puzzling mathematics problem that contains uncertainty. [33:08]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: The Monty Hall Problem: Outsmart a Game Show & Win a Car
This lesson teaches students how to make decisions in the face of uncertainty by using decision trees. Over the course of this lesson, students will learn about the role of uncertainty in decision making, how to make and use a decision...