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Gold-Worthy Ideas for the Upcoming Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Gather some ideas for bringing the Winter Olympics into your classroom.
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Ho!Ho!Ho!

For Students 10th - 11th
In this algebra activity, 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 Students 10th - 12th
In 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 contains...
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Picking Chips: Experimental Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students 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

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study sports teams, gather data about the teams, and create a newscast about their data. For this sports analysis lesson, students research two teams and define their statistical data. Students compare the two teams, make...
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Football Statistics

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students examine the statistical information as provided in the graphic organizer and calculate the other values.
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Olympic Games - Can You Measure Up?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
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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Math Averages

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students perform different activities to better explain that the word "Average" has 5 different meanings.
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Olympic Cycling

For Teachers 6th - 9th
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

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers 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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Introduction to the Concept of Probability

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
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

For Teachers 5th - 12th
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

For Teachers 5th - 7th
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

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore fractions by participating in a card activity in class. For this percentages lesson, 5th graders inventory the amount of different cards in a deck in order to determine the percentages of getting a certain card....
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Acting Like a Hog

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore game theory.  In this secondary mathematics lesson, students plat the game of HOG using dice and explore the optimal strategies.  Young scholars play the game three ways:  any number of dice, a fixed...
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Lego Thinking and Building

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
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

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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Using Mean, Median, Mode, and Range through Basketball

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use the sports pages of the newspaper to analyze the mean, median, mode and range of basketball statistics.
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Word Power

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify a set of data from a real world problem. In this statistics instructional activity, 5th graders identify the range, mode, median and mean using some manipulatives. They write words randomizing the letters.
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Basketball And Mathematics

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders collect and analyze data about foul shots taken at basketball games.
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Countdown Challenge: Probability and You

For Students 7th - 8th
In this probability worksheet, learners explain how probability is a part of everyday life by discussing six different scenarios. Afterwards, they draw a picture of probability in their life. This one-page worksheet contains a total of...
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Getting A Grip On Graphs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the concept of graphing and comparing different types of data using pictographs, line graphs, scatter plots, etc... They gather data and make interpretations while examining the medium of how it is displayed.