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Acting Like a Hog

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore game theory.  In this secondary mathematics lesson, students plat the game of HOG using dice and explore the optimal strategies.  Students play the game three ways:  any number of dice, a fixed number of dice and using...
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Fred's Fun Factory

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Round and round and round she goes. Where she stops, nobody knows. This activity uses a common arcade game of chance, the spinning wheel, as a platform for computing expected values, interpreting results, and applying this knowledge to...
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Real-World Linear Programming

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore linear programming on a website game. Partners solve a real-world problem by setting up an objective function and a linear inequality. They graph their results on chart paper and also using a calculator before presenting their...
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Stochastic and Deterministic Modeling

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Explore the difference between stochastic and deterministic modeling through programming. First have the class write algorithms for relatively simple tasks using pseudocode. Use the Python 2.7 program app to simulate Mendel's Pea Pod...
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Against all Odds

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders appreciate the role of probability in understanding everyday situations. They Communicate a summary of financial projections in appropriate reports, tables, and graphs after creating a new game of chance.
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Super Arcade Champion

For Students 11th
In this stats worksheet, 11th graders complete a word problem given specific clues. They calculate how many different ways someone can be a champion in a game an arcade game. There is a solution.
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Remote Possibilities

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students collect data and analyze the data using a graph. In this statistics lesson, students use combinations and theoretical and experimental probability to analyze their data. They observe a remote controlled robot as they collect data.
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Nine Men's Morris

For Students 7th - 11th
In this worksheet, students play the game of Nine Me's Morris which is similar to tic-tac-toe and checkers.  Students are presented with a diagram of the playing board and instructions for play.
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Advanced Algebra: Do You Feel Lucky?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the realm of mathematical probability while playing a game of chance. after constructing paper rockets, they fire it enough times to determine the probabilities of the rocket traveling past a marked distance and of it...
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Math Stars: a Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 7

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Put on your thinking caps because middle school math has never been more interesting in this huge resource full of thought provoking questions. Written as a newsletter, the resource has 10 two-page newsletters with a variety of...
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A Statistical Study of the Letters of the Alphabet

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students gather appropriate information for simple statistical analysis. Then they will calculate probability working with a piece of literature that makes this lesson ideal for teaching across the whole curriculum.
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Lotto or Life: What Are the Chances?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Though the website does not seem to have the mentioned video, a reding and lottery style games simulate the chances of finding intelligent life somewhere other than Earth. Without the video, this lesson plan is short, but it can be a...
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Chapter 4, 8, 9, Review. Math 210 - Chance

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
In this chance worksheet, students determine the chance of an event happening. This two-page worksheet contains approximately seven multi-step word problems.
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Four Corner Fun: A Review Game

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice academic skills by answering multiple choice questions. They role-play as fibbers or players and respond to questions accordingly, going to the A,B,C, or D corners of the classsroom. Fibbers can go to any corner.
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Expected Value of a Discrete Random Variable

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Discover how to calculate the expected value of a random variable. In the seventh installment of a 21-part module, young mathematicians develop the formula for expected value. They connect this concept the dot product of vectors.
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You Bet!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the mathematical probabilities involved in gambling and how these factors affect people's behavior. They work in pairs and conduct and experiment pertaining to blackjack. The class creates a graph showing the trends found.
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Monty's Dilemma

For Students 9th - 10th
In this algebra learning exercise, students are asked to choose a door and decide whether they should keep it or not after they are shown what is behind one of the doors. This learning exercise is based on probability. There are 3...
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Simulation and Statistics

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students perform simulation of video games as they explore statistics. In this algebra lesson, students relate concepts of statistics and data collection to solve problems. They decide their next step based on the previous assessment of...
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Compound Events: Independent and Dependent

For Students 9th - 12th
In this probability activity, students analyze word problems to determine for part one the independent events and for part two the dependent events. There are 6 questions.
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Combination Vs. Permutation

For Students 8th - 12th
In this probability learning exercise, students analyze word problems, determine whether the situation is a combination or a permutation, and solve. There are 5 multiple choice questions. 
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Voting Systems

For Students 9th - 12th
In this voting systems worksheet, students read story problems and then use various methods to determine the probable winner of an election. They use the Plurality and Borda tables to determine outcomes. This two-page worksheet...
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Pooling Around

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Pupils complete a unit of lessons on computing area and volume. They play a Jeopardy game of basic area formulas, calculate surface area of shapes, develop a Powerpoint presentation, and conduct a simulation of finding the surface area...
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Kindergarten Cootoes and Jealous Gentlemen

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students play games to reinforce math concepts. In this geometry lesson plan, students identify the probability of an even occurring. They find the vertex of a parabola and Euler and Hamilton examples.
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Lucky Number

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students use data from simulations to make theoretical generalizations. They discuss possible relationships between several given events and gain understanding about their own mathematical intuition about likelihood.

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