Curated OER
Tetrahedral Dice
Put those thinking hats on and look at all the possible outcomes from rolling two different four-sided dice. The challenge in this problem is finding all the combinations when adding and subtracting the numbers from each die and creating...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Combinations
With so many combinations, this colorful video allows your learners to mathematically figure out how many options they have when purchasing t-shirts. One instructional activity teaches how to find out the combinations, and the second...
Curated OER
Probability
Middle schoolers explore independent probability. They identify mutually exclusive outcomes. This two-page instructional activity contains four multi-step problems.
Achieve
False Positives
The test may say you have cancer, but sometimes the test is wrong. The provided task asks learners to analyze cancer statistics for a fictitious town. Given the rate of false positives, they interpret the meaning of this value in the...
CK-12 Foundation
Mutually Inclusive Events: Flower Beds at the Community Garden
What color does your garden grow? Learners manipulate the number of flowers of two colors in two garden plots. They determine the probabilities of choosing a particular color of a flower in a given plot. Scholars find the relationship of...
Curated OER
Oxidation Reduction Reactions
For this chemistry worksheet, students find the outcomes necessary for the oxidation reduction reactions. The sheet includes background information.
CK-12 Foundation
Discrete Random Variables: Roll the Dice!
And the winner is ... not always who it appears to be. An interactive gives the directions for a dice game that on the surface gives one player an advantage over the other. Pupils look closer at the possible outcomes and find the...
Curated OER
Tree Diagrams
For this tree diagrams worksheet, students solve and complete 10 different problems that include creating tree diagrams. First, they toss a coin and roll a die simultaneously to determine the outcomes with a tree diagram. Then, students...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Is It Fair?
In this probability instructional activity, learners answer nine questions about the fairness of games. Students determine if a game is fair or not. They list outcomes and find ones' chances of winning.
Curated OER
Probability
In this probability worksheet, students solve and complete 16 various types of problems related to statistics. First, they determine the probability of the statistics that are true as shown. Then, students find the conditional...
Willow Tree
Simple Probability
The probability of learning from this lesson is high! Learners calculate probabilities as numbers and as decimals. They see how to use a complement to find a probability and even try a simple geometric probability problem.
Willow Tree
The Fundamental Counting Principle
How many different outfits can you make with what you have in your closet? The Fundamental Counting Principle can help you find an answer! Learners find totals using the Fundamental Counting Principle with problems that can have...
EngageNY
Counting Rules—The Fundamental Counting Principle and Permutations
Count the benefits of using the resource. The second installment of a 21-part module focuses on the fundamental counting principle to determine the number of outcomes in a sample space. It formalizes concepts of permutations and...
Mathed Up!
Probability
How likely is it to draw a blue marble? Pupils find the likelihood of events and connect that to the probability of the event. They find the probabilities of simple events and show their probabilities on a scale.
Curated OER
Sitting across from Each Other
What is the probability that two randomly seated people will be across from each other at a square table? Check learners' understanding of theoretical probability and compound events with this short assessment. A great opportunity to...
Illustrative Mathematics
Return to Fred's Fun Factory (with 50 Cents)
The penny arcade gets the statistics treatment in this fun probability investigation. A non-standard game of chance is described and then the class is set loose to find missing probabilities, determine common outcomes, and evaluate...
Curated OER
Math: How Many Ways Can You Find the Middle?
Twelfth graders find the mean, median, and modes of stacks of Lego blocks, They search in newspapers for real life applications of them. They present oral reports on what they have learned.
Kentucky Adult Education
Probability Lesson Plan
Roll the dice with this multimedia math lesson on probability. After first viewing a series of three short videos explaining probability, independent events, and dependent events, young mathematicians complete a set of practice...
Curated OER
Brian's Pegboard II
Students are able to assess a problem and use systematic methods to solve the problem. They also find out all the possible outcomes for a sequence of events using tree diagrams.
Curated OER
Probability and Expected Value
Learners collect data and analyze it. In this statistics lesson, students make predictions using different outcomes of trials.
College Board
Random Variables vs. Algebraic Variables
Variables can vary in meaning. A reference material for AP® Statistics explains the difference between random and algebraic variables. It provides a hypothetical situation involving dice—great for use in a classroom situation.
NASA
Solar Systems: Sequences and Probabilities
In this sequences and probability activity, students solve 3 problems by writing out all the possibilities for the solution and they use probability to find their answers. They determine the probability of solar flares happening on a...
Curated OER
Areas and Probabilities
In this area and probability worksheet, learners solve 5 problems where they find the probability of an event occurring. They also use a given photograph of the moon's surface to find the area covered by craters and determine the...
EngageNY
Relationships Between Two Numerical Variables
Is there another way to view whether the data is linear or not? Class members work alone and in pairs to create scatter plots in order to determine whether there is a linear pattern or not. The exit ticket provides a quick way to...