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TOPS Learning Systems
Top Science: Tack Toss [Pdf]
An activity where students toss a set of tacks one hundred times and plot how many land on their sides each time. They then calculate the mode, median, and mean.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Collecting Pens
How many boxes of cereal must you buy to collect all six different prizes? Calculating this using probability rules is much more difficult than finding the answer using simulation. This lesson plan includes worksheets for students that...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Quincunx
The Quincunx is a fascinating probability machine that demonstrates how distribution works. This page has an interactive Quincunx where you can adjust how many rows there are for the balls to bounce down when dropped. A link takes you to...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Arsenal Collection: Football Formations
How many different football team formations can you find? This activity provides an engaging real-life context to investigate simple combinations, and is aimed at Key Stage 3 students.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Would You Like Fries With That?
French fries from your cafeteria to do data analysis. The students count the number of fries in a single serving of fries along with weighing the order, then measure the length and weight of a sample of individual fries. You then use the...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: The Home Advantage
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics the UK finished 4th in the total medal count. How might we do in 2012, and does the country hosting the Olympics have an edge?
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp.6 Heads or Tails
Each of the 20 students in Mr. Anderson's class flipped a coin ten times and recorded how many times it came out heads. Aligns with 7.SP.C.6.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Heads Up! (Continued)
In this activity, students explore how to write and enter a calculator program that will simulate coin tossing for a given number of times and count the number of heads and tails. They analyze the program and modify it.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Birthday Surprise
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Birthday Problem, in which one calculates how many people must be in a group so that a birthday is "probably" shared. The solution to this problem is...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Tiles in a Bag
How many tiles would you have to pick to be confident that your estimated probability truly represents the situation? In this activity, you will draw a tile from a bag, record its color and put it back in the bag. The bag contains 24...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Handshakes
When the nine justices of the Supreme Court meet, they greet one another with a handshake to show harmony of purpose, even though their views may differ. How many handshakes occur? In general, how many handshakes occur when there are n...
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Poisson Distribution
Enter the world of Poisson Distributions. A brief background is given on the properties and applications of the concept. Examples are presented for calculating probabilities, mean and variance for situations that fit the conditions of...
Other
Lake Tahoe Com. College: Permutations and Combinations
Gives a basic introduction to combinations and permutations, highlighting the ideas of counting using replacement versus without replacement, and when order is important versus when order is not important.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Combinations
The combination function is used to solve probability counting problems. Several examples are presented with detailed solutions.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Baye's Theorem
In this lesson, several probabilities are calculated using the theorem named after Thomas Bayes.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Which Spinner Is Fair?
Decide which spinner is fair for each of the probability examples presented. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you are told the...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Identify the Outcomes 2
Practice predicting what the outcome would be in each of the probability examples presented. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Histograms Review
A histogram displays numerical data by grouping data into "bins" of equal width. Each bin is plotted as a bar whose height corresponds to how many data points are in that bin.
Rice University
Rice University: The Hand Squeeze
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...
Richland Community College
Richland Community College: Math 116 Lecture Notes
This site from the Richland Community College provides the detailed lecture notes to a college algebra course, complete with equations and definitions. Content ranges from "functions and their graphs" to "conics and parametric equations."
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Blaise Pascal
Excellent discussion of the life and work of this great scientist and mathematician. Describes his range of interests and notes his many contributions. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and...
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Binomial Distribution
The definition and properties of binomial distributions are presented here, along with the formulas for finding the mean and variance. Examples are provided to demonstrate how binomial distribution problems are solved.
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math for the Fun of It
This compilation of math activities engages parents and children in the use of math whenever they are at home. Packed with concise, high interest activities, related illustrations, detailed "parent pointers," and easy to following...
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.