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EngageNY

Calculating Probabilities of Compound Events

For Teachers 7th Standards
Use tree diagrams with multiple branches to calculate the probabilities of compound events. Pupils use tree diagrams to find the sample space for probability problems and use them to determine the probability of compound events in the...
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Curated OER

7-5 Practice Integration: Probability Compound Events

For Teachers 8th - 10th
For this probability worksheet, students read story problems and draw tree diagrams to model the probability of compound events. After creating two tree diagrams, students compare them. They compute the probability of dependent events.
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Curated OER

Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Your statisticians examine the characteristics of conditional probability and the probability of simultaneous independent events. They perform computer activities to find probabilities for simple compound events. They examine the...
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Curated OER

Drawing One and Two Playing Cards With Replacement

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Math whizzes use data from simulations to make theoretical generalizations and discuss possible relationships between several given events. They use a simple card game to generate data to be analyzed.
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Curated OER

Concept: Dependent Events

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Middle and high schoolers determine the probability of dependent events. Students compute both compound and simple probability. This four-page worksheet contains six multi-step problems.
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EngageNY

Events and Venn Diagrams

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Time for statistics and learning to overlap! Learners examine Venn Diagrams as a means to organize data. They then use the diagrams to calculate simple and compound probabilities.
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Curated OER

Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore the concept of conditional probability and probability of simultaneous events. In this conditional probability and probability of simultaneous events lesson, students roll dice or use and applet to roll dice to determine...
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EngageNY

Using Tree Diagrams to Represent a Sample Space and to Calculate Probabilities

For Teachers 7th Standards
Cultivate the tree of knowledge using diagrams with two stages. Pupils create small tree diagrams to determine the sample space in compound probability problems. The instructional activity uses only two decision points to introduce tree...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Waiting Times

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Probability prevails in this assignment as youngsters determine the probability of finding a blue pen in a cereal box when they can come in blue, green, yellow, or red. Learners set up a simulation to determine the outcome of compound...
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EngageNY

Applying Probability to Make Informed Decisions

For Teachers 7th Standards
Use simulations to determine the probabilities of events to make decisions. Class members are presented with several scenarios, some with known probabilities and others without. Groups run simulations to gather data that they then...
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Curated OER

Taste Test - Combining Sentences

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students combine sentences to create compound sentences. They write about creating their own soda, then make their own soda, comparing and contrasting it with a national brand. They write a paragraph containing compound sentences.
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Math12

Basics of Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Give your middle schoolers a fighting chance at understanding probability. Offering numerous examples that clearly demonstrate basic probability concepts, this resource helps young mathematicians learn how to visualize the...
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Statistics Education Web

Odd or Even? The Addition and Complement Principles of Probability

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Odd or even—fifty-fifty chance? Pupils first conduct an experiment rolling a pair of dice to generate data in a probability lesson. It goes on to introduce mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events, and how to use the...
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Curated OER

What Are The Chances

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students calculate the probability of an event occurring. In this probability lesson, students differentiate between independent, dependent or compound events. They find the range of the data.
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Curated OER

Studying for a Test

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners calculate the probability of compound events. They solve the problem using a tree, list of formulas and explain what was done and why it was done. Students develop the following skills in order to determine, describe and apply...
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Curated OER

The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a Cirlce Map about time. They recall times during the grouchy ladybugs travels, and add dots on ladybugs using turn-around facts. Pupils correctly sequence the events of The Grouchy Ladybug. Students compose new...
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Virginia Department of Education

What Are the Chances?

For Teachers 7th
Take a chance on an informative resource. Scholars conduct probability experiments involving coins and number cubes to generate data. Compiling class data helps connect experimental probability to theoretical probability.
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Curated OER

Who? What? When? Where? Asking Questions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders interview Veterans or role play to answer who, what, where, when questions. In this Veteran's Day questioning activity, 6th graders learn about the events in the military service of veterans. Students may simulate...
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Curated OER

What are the Odds

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students predict the-outcome of an event. In this algebra lesson, students compare and contrast the probability of an event occurring. They calculate the odds of a simple event and make estimation.
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Reconstruction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
When slavery ended, what did the government do to help African American during Reconstruction? An interesting instructional activity uses primary sources such as newspaper articles to help scholars analyze Reconstruction policies and how...
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Chymist

How Do We Affect the Quality of Our Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 12th
Explore the makeup of the earth's atmosphere. Using the set of specific experiments, pupils examine the main elements and compounds present in the atmosphere. Their study extends to investigate the effects of atmospheric...
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Curated OER

Probability: Basic Rules of Probability

For Teachers 8th - 10th
In this probability worksheet, pupils determine the probability of independent and dependent events. They complete simple and compound events. This four-page worksheet contains five problems. Answers are provided.
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Evaluating Statements about Probability

For Teachers 7th Standards
Learners first complete an assessment task where they assess statements on probability. They then sort cards containing probability statements as being either true or false.
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Mathalicious

Three Shots

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
To foul or not to foul, that is the basketball question. High schoolers look at the probability that fouling out a player and allowing free throws yields a better outcome than allowing the original shot. The resource provides a...

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