There are seven stepping stones and six people - three on the left facing the three on the right. How is it possible to have the three on the left end up on the right, and vice versa, while everyone was at all times standing on a stone...

This is a beginning lesson on the concept of probability. Through a series of informal comparisons, the student will explore the chances of various outcomes of an event. The student will use vocabulary associated with probability.This...

Operation Independence! Students will now take what they have learned from previous data lessons and put it into action. The students will work in pairs of two to decide on a survey question and then collects classmates' responses to...

Survey says? That is the question today, as students work on three different tasks to assess the how they are doing with the skills from the current unit.

This site includes questions related to reading and understanding graphs. There are links on this site to lesson plans, benchmarks, and other webpages all of which mostly center about probability and statistics.

This lesson focuses on Combinatorics, a branch of mathematics which is about counting. It includes 5 sections: Factorials, Permutations, Combinations, Combinatorics and Pascal's Triangle, and Combinatorics and Probability with examples...

Teacher-directed lesson plan focusing on data analysis, graphing, and probability. Lesson includes a video and engaging spreadsheet activities.

In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson, middle schoolers will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The middle...