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Texas Instruments

Probability of Repeated Independent Events

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Statisticians analyze different samples to find independent and dependent events. In this probability lesson, pupils predict the outcome and then calculate the real outcome. They create a tree diagram to help predict the probability of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Expected Outcome

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars determine expected values of experiments and explore distributions of experiments. They guess as to how many times a coin will flip heads in fifty tries. They flip a coin fifty times graphing the results on a histogram....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ng Data: Probability, What's in the bag?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students use the language associated with probability to discuss events including those with equally likely outcome. They collect data from a simple experiment and record in a frequency table: estimate probabilities based on this data
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding the Probability

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the concept of probability. They use a clear objective that is a visual cue for what is required for the lesson. They apply the basic practices of probability to real life like situations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Probability: the Study of Chance

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students experiment to determine if a game is fair, collect data, interpret data, display data, and state and apply the rule for probability. Students use a simple game for this experiment.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Discrete Random Variables: Roll the Dice!

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
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...
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Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Random Walk III

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Don't cross the line; just walk along it. Scholars investigate a scenario in which a person starts at zero on a number line, then moves left or right depending on a flip of a coin. They determine the number of outcomes for six flips,...
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Simulations

For Students 9th - 12th
Simulate an exciting graphing calculator-based lesson. Individuals watch and participate creating simulations using the random number generator in a graphing calculator to answer probability problems. Learners then build simulations to...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Operations with Sets: Let's Roll the Dice!

For Students 9th - 12th
There's no need to roll dice for this probability experiment, the resource includes them already. Scholars use an interactive to see how including more possibilities as favorable outcomes in a dice activity affects the probabilities....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Combinations

For Students 9th - 11th
In this probability worksheet, learners use permutation and combination to calculate the number of outcomes. They differentiate between the two. There are 2 questions with an answer key.
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Activity
Wake Forest University

Authentic Activities for Connecting Mathematics to the Real World

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Check out the handout from a presentation that contains a collection of high school algebra projects connecting a variety of mathematics to the real world. Activities range from simple probabilities to calculus. The activities can be...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tree Diagrams

For Students 8th - 9th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's the Chance?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students conduct probability experiments with dice and coins. They watch a video for a variety of situations where calculating the probability is complicated by total number of possibilities. They solve problems presented in the video.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Take a Chance!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate probability and the chance of an even happening. In this algebra lesson, students incorporate their knowledge of probability to solve problems and relate it to the real world. They learn to make decisions based on data.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math in Society

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders determine probabilities of real-life events such as life expectancies, winning a lottery ticket and the break-even premium. They apply how life-expectation tables are used to estimate the probability that an individual...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Jelly Bean Problem

For Students 7th - 12th
In this probability worksheet, students solve 1 word problem about the probability of drawing a particular color jelly bean out of a bag.  Students are given two bags with 4 jelly beans each.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What are My Chances?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners calculate the chance of an event occurring. In this statistics lesson, students use combination and permutation to calculate the probability of an event occurring. They differentiate between theoretical and experimental...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's in the Bag?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students calculate the probability of an event occurring. In this statistics lesson, students calculate the outcome using combination and permutation. They differentiate between-theoretical and experimental probability.
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Equally Likely and Unequally Likely Outcomes

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore probability.  For this statistics/probability lesson, students compare experimental and theoretical probability and use experimental probability to make predictions and conjectures.  Students explore the distinction...
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers to Solve Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of probability.  In this probability lesson plan, students use area to determine probability.  Students use charts and spinners to help determine the probability of events such as flipping a coin or rolling a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Which Bag is Which?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners explore number sense by completing a statistical analysis game in class. In this data graphing instructional activity, students utilize visual references such as colored cubes and tiles to map out the results of an experiment...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Combination Problems: Friends at a Party

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Friend or stranger? Can there be less than three in a group? The interactive asks learners to prove that for seven people at a party, at least three of them are either mutual friends or mutual strangers. Pupils determine the number of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Time-Axis Fallacy and Bayes Theorem

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students determine that knowledge of an event's outcome can affect the probability of the unknown outcome of an event that has already occurred.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Make That Shot!

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners figure out basic percentages by shooting paper balls into a basket, recording results, and calculating individual and team percentages for ten shots.

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