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Probability Games and Activities, Unit 10
Looking for tangible ways to practice probability with your class? Through 4 activities, students practice with experimental probability, using math to make educated guesses, then testing it through physically completing the experiment....
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Probability Crossword
Make probability fun and test your learners' knowledge of math probability vocabulary. Print out this crossword puzzle and see if they know enough about outcomes and experiments to fill in the blanks. The answer key is attached in...
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Rescue Mission Game
Students conduct probability experiments. For this rescue mission lesson, sudents play a game and collect statistical data. They organize and interpret the data and determine the probability of success. Students plot points on a...
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Mathematics of Fair Games
Learners examine mathematicians' notion of fairness in games of chance. They work in pairs to perform three different experiments using macaroni and paper bags. They record their results on charts and compare their data.
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Chances Are
Upper graders examine the concept of probability. They collect data and create a bar graph. They must interpret the data as well. Everyone engages in hands-on games and activities which lead them to predict possible outcomes for a...
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Math in English Skills I Exercise Book: Addition and Subtraction
Whether your pupils need extra help or they simply need to practice their basic computation skills, this packet will do the trick. It includes a written rationale, answer key, and over 10 pages of double-digit addition and subtraction...
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Probability Concepts (Practice 20.2)
In this probability learning exercise, learners solve 16 problems pertaining to probability and likely, less likely, certain and impossible outcomes.
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Probability of One Event
In these finding the probability worksheets, students use a dart board, playing cards, and a board game to problem solve. Students solve 17 problems.
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Probability of a Single Event
In this probability worksheet, students solve thirty-six fractional probabilities involving the rolling of a dice to specific scenarios, game spinners, sweets in a bag and random colors. Students check their answers online as they go.
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Do You Feel Lucky?
Students explore probability by using games based on probable outcomes of events. They name all of the possible outcomes of an event and express the likelihood of such an event occurring.
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The Candy Color Caper
Students explore the concept of probability. They calculate the probability of an event happening and graph their results. Students determine the probability of winning a sweepstakes. They construct a bar graph to represent all the...
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High or Low- Probability
Students use playing cards to examine probability. In this probability lesson, students work in groups with a deck of cards and predict if the next card they lay down will be high or low. Students fill out a graphic organizer with their...
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Pick A Number
Elementary schoolers find out which month has the most class birthdays (mode) and which birthday represents the middle point of all the birthdays (median). They gather and organize data to find one number that fairly represents the whole...
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Quarter, Nickel, Dime....
An engaging game called, "Quarter, Nickel, and Dime" is presented in this math lesson. Players are given an envelope with slips of paper that represent the three coins. In pairs, they play the game 18 times, and the whole class charts...
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Probability - What Are the Odds?
Students study the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students define probability and visit an interactive spinner website to learn about theoretical and experimental probability. Students use pennies and work in pairs...
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Fair Play- Probability Worksheet
In this fair play probability worksheet, 4th graders use the given spinner to determine how many times a student will land on a vowel if they spin 18 times. They toss number cubes 20 times and complete a tally chart that shows the number...
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Practice with Probability
Fourth graders participate in a variety of activities to reinforce the concept of probability. After reading a book, they identify the chances of an event occuring to one of the characters on a probability line. To end the...
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Replacement and Probability
Students explore sampling with and without replacement. They explore the effects on the probability of drawing a desired object. Students examine probability and the difference between sampling with and without replacement.
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Understanding Probability
In this probability worksheet, students read through an example problem regarding probability. They then use what they read to answer the 7 probability questions on the page.
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Math Spinner Game
In this math game worksheet, students complete a tally chart by filling in the "total" column of a graphic organizer. Students then create a spinner that might have been used to get the results shown and then explain how they know the...
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Shake, Rattle, and Roll - A Bean Game
Learners (organized in partners) analyse a game through probability to decide whether it is a fair game or not.
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Problem-Solving Application: Use Probability
For this spinner probability worksheet, students read one story problem about a spinner game and how fair it is. Students answer 4 short answer questions about solving this problem.
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Twenty Guesses—Information Theory
How do we determine how much information to include and what can be left out? By playing a game of 20 questions, the class generates the best strategies for finding a number. They then move on to guessing the next letter in a short...
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The Color Spinner
In this probability instructional activity, 4th graders look at a spinner and figure out the odds of the spinner hitting each space. They answer 9 short answer questions.