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Probability of One Event
In these finding the probability worksheets, students use a dart board, playing cards, and a board game to problem solve. Students solve 17 problems.
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Yes or No Logic Problem
In this statistics worksheet, students solve word problems using statistics and probability. They solve a riddle identifying the probability of the event occurring.
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Gold-Worthy Ideas for the Upcoming Games
Gather some ideas for bringing the Winter Olympics into your classroom.
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Ho!Ho!Ho!
In this algebra worksheet, students find the missing words in the sentence. They are given the H and O, but must come up with the rest of the words based on the clues given. It is a fun assignment with 12 simple questions.
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Super Bowl Champs
For this Super Bowl worksheet, students create line plots of all winners and losers of the Super Bowl. They create stem-and-leaf plots, scatter plots, and bar graphs of football data. This one-page worksheet...
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Picking Chips: Experimental Probability
Students apply the concepts of an event occurring to playing a game. In this probability lesson,students differentiate between experimental and theoretical probability.
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A Statistical Study on the Letters of the Alphabet
Young scholars see that there are mathematical rules that can affect our use of the English language. Calculate the probability of picking any letter at random from a piece of English literature.
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Dynamic Data Range, Mode, and Median
Pupils practice statistics skills by calculating range, mode, and median. In this 4th - 6th grade lesson plan, students calculate range, median, and mode of given numbers while playing a game.
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Statistics Newscast in Math Class
Students study sports teams, gather data about the teams, and create a newscast about their data. In this sports analysis lesson, students research two teams and define their statistical data. Students compare the two teams, make...
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Olympic Games - Can You Measure Up?
Students complete 6 units to learn about Ancient Greece and the Olympic games through physical education activities as well as math activities. In this Ancient Greece lesson, students complete multiple activities in 6 lessons including...
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Football Statistics
In this math learning exercise, learners examine the statistical information as provided in the graphic organizer and calculate the other values.
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Math Averages
Students perform different activities to better explain that the word "Average" has 5 different meanings.
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Olympic Cycling
Teach teenagers to think critically about data. Young data analysts must create two questions that can be answered using a provided data set on Olympic cycling times. Of course, they then have to answer their questions using mathematics.
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Seeing Is Believing
Students investigate the concepts of probability. They use data to find the central tendency, median, and mode. Students design and play a game in order to practice the concepts. They also complete a table with data that is analyzed.
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High, Low, or In Between?
Trios play a card game that reinforces the concepts of number sequence and greater than and less than. Scholars make predictions based on information they know and a single unknown. They see cards drawn by others in the group, but not...
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Introduction to the Concept of Probability
Acquaint mathematicians to the concept of probability with a discussion about the results of a game. Then have them play a dice, card, spinner, or coin game and recording the number of wins vs. the number of tries on an interactive web...
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Probability: The Study of Chance
Learners practice the basic principles of probability by conducting an experiment, determining if a game is fair, collecting data, interpreting data, displaying data, conducting analysis, and stating and applying the rule for probability.
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Rock, Paper, Scissors to One Whole
Students explore fractions by participating in a chance game. In this denominators instructional activity, students collaborate with a partner to record the outcome of several games of rock, scissors, paper. Students translate the...
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Percentage War
Fifth graders explore fractions by participating in a card activity in class. In this percentages instructional activity, 5th graders inventory the amount of different cards in a deck in order to determine the percentages of getting a...
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Acting Like a Hog
Learners explore game theory. In this secondary mathematics lesson, students plat the game of HOG using dice and explore the optimal strategies. Learners play the game three ways: any number of dice, a fixed number of...
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Collecting and Organizing Data
Fifth graders explore methods of generating and organizing data. Afterward, they visit a specified website where they analyze data, organize, and create graphs. Students follow instructions and complete answers to questions. They...
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Lego Thinking and Building
Run a simulated airplane manufacturing plant with your pupils as the builders! Learners build Lego airplane models and collect data on the rate of production, comparing the number produced to the number defective. Using linear...
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Odd or Even? The Addition and Complement Principles of Probability
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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Using Mean, Median, Mode, and Range through Basketball
Eighth graders use the sports pages of the newspaper to analyze the mean, median, mode and range of basketball statistics.