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Compound Interest

For Students 8th - 10th
In this compound interest worksheet, students solve 3 problems after reading about compound interest. They determine the cost of the Apollo missions, they calculate inflation and the cost it would be to send man to the moon today and...
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Ideas that Lead to Probability

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students use random number generators to determine probabilities of events. Learners discuss if certain probable events are fair. Students determine fair ways to...
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Rolling Twice

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Rolling dice is the best way to show your learners how probability comes in to play. Although this lesson does not specify an activity, your mathematicians can try this probability with real dice to calculate their experimental...
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Unexpected Answers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of fairness. In this fairness lesson, students play four probability games. Students determine who has the best chance of winning each of the four games. Students discuss which games gave an unfair advantage.
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Chances Are......You're Right

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young mathematicians study probability. In this math lesson, learners calculate odds, and convert those into percentages of probability. Fractions are also used, making this lesson quite rich in some of the more difficult conversions...
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Shodor Education Foundation

From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
What middle schooler does not enjoy an occasional online game? In this lesson plan play, you will find embedded links to an online probability game, and informative pages about how division is used in probability, the concept of tree...
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Inside Mathematics

Marble Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils determine the theoretical probability of winning a game of marbles. Individuals compare the theoretical probability to experimental probability for the same game. They continue on to compare two different probability games.
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Mathed Up!

Tree Diagrams

For Students 9th - 11th
Explore how to visually represent probability problems. Scholars watch a video to refresh their memories on tree diagrams. To finish the activity, they complete a worksheet of questions on this topic.
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Royal Society of Chemistry

Lead Compounds: Precipitation Reactions and Pigments—Microscale Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Colorful lead compounds never fail to impress! Solubility scholars examine a series of double replacement reactions involving lead nitrate and record their observations. The second part of the experiment illustrates the differences...
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Counting Handout 2

For Students 7th - 12th
In this counting method, students solve simple and compound probability problems.  They determine the number of permutations and combinations that can be made under given circumstances.  This two-page worksheet contains 23 problems. ...
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Single and Compound Events

For Students 8th
In this single and compound events worksheet, 8th graders solve 10 different problems that contain various single and compound events. First, they determine the probability of selecting an ace and a king without a replacement. Then,...
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Single and Compound Events

For Students 8th
For this single and compound events worksheet, 8th graders solve 10 different problems related to various single and compound events. First, they determine the probability of getting ace and a king card without replacement. then,...
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Games for Probability: In-Class and Powerball Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Your soon-to-be statisticians play a game to understand the difference between independent and dependent experiments and probability. They draw colored cubes from a bag and then, by either replacing the cube in the bag, or not, for each...
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Achieve

False Positives

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
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...
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Corbett Maths

Listing Outcomes

For Students 6th - 10th Standards
Make a list and check it twice. Many times, it is beneficial to make a list of the possible outcomes when trying to determine a probability. The resource shows how to systematically make a list and then calculate the probability of...
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Lottery

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A probability activity presents a lottery game as an idea for a fundraiser. Pupils analyze the game to determine the number of possible outcomes, then determine whether the game would be a good way to raise funds and to support their...
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Project Maths

Outcomes of Coin Tosses

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Flip a coin: heads, use the resource; tails, use the resource. The fourth of six installments of the Statistics & Probability unit looks at coin tosses and probability. The class conducts an experiment and sees that the outcomes of...
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Memory Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers must determine probabilities for a memory game in which winning requires matching two of the same cards. They then must determine what happens when more cards are added to the pile.
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Bowland

Lottery

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Take a chance on raising money. Learners calculate probabilities to determine whether a lottery is a good way to raise money. Pupils determine the number of combinations of choosing two numbers between one and six. Using the sample...
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Fire!, Probability, and Chaos

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students simulate a controlled forest burn using an applet. Students vary the probability of trees burning and predict what will happen.
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Total English Advanced: Make a Compound Word!

For Students 7th - 10th
In this compound words practice activity, students examine the 10 sentences that are missing part of a compound word. Students fill in the blanks with the appropriate words from the word bank.
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Probability and Sports

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars research topics on the internet where probability is relevant. Students study statistics and probability concepts by looking at practical questions that arise in professional sports.
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From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students see how division is used to help solve probability problems. They use tables as data structures where they are used to count outcomes and to compute probabilities. Students use games to help solve probability problems.
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Replacement and Probability

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
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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