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Interpreting Expected Value
Investigate expected value as a long-run average. The eighth installment of a 21-part module has scholars rolling pairs of dice to determine the average sum. They find aggregate data by working in groups and interpret expected value as...
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Even/Odds Game
Using a game format, learners review what they know about theoretical probability. As they roll tetrahedron dice, they record their results as odd or even. Afterwards, they discuss their findings.
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Mathematics Activities from Diverse Cultures
Connect probability and odds with different games from around the world. Pick from games like Dreidel, Mancala, and a Navajo stick game called Ashbil. All 12 games include probability questions to encourage a discussion before or after...
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Clean up the Money!
In this money worksheet, students fill up a grid with coins and then roll dice to get ordered pairs and take the money of the ordered pair that they roll. Students then add up their money in the end and see who wins.
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Games of Chance and Expected Value 1
There's a strong chance that class members enjoy learning math through engaging games. Scholars analyze games of chance to determine long-term behavior. They learn to calculate expected value to help with this assessment.
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Data Analysis and Froot Loops
Use this probability and graphing lesson plan to have your learners work with a partner to make a necklace out of Froot Loops. They record the cereal colors randomly chosen and strung, graph their data, then use a ratio formula to...
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Crazy Choices Game
Wanna take a chance on which game is best? The resource provides three games of chance using multiple types of games. Games range from coin toss to cards. Choosing a type of game, pupils determine what wins and enter the theoretical...
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What Are My Chances?
Students calculate probability. In this lesson plan on probability, students use given data to calculate to chances of a given event occurring. Many of the calculations in this lesson plan are applicable to daily life.
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Drawing Bugs Game
Second graders explore probability by playing a drawing game with dice. After they roll a die, they draw a tree diagram to illustrate each of the possible outcomes.
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Unit 21 Section 5: Estimating the Number of Successes
In this probability worksheet, students solve six short answer problems. Students enter their answers in the boxes provided and click on the answer button to check for correctness.
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Chapter 5 Review
In this statistics worksheet, students solve and complete 10 different types of problems. First, they determine the probability of various actions described. Then, students describe an appropriate model for the number described and...
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Lucky 7s
This helpful lesson explores the probability in tossing a coin and throwing dice. Specifically, it looks at the probability of getting numbers that are significant to the game of craps, assuming that once the math is understood, most...
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Pair of Dice
In this probability worksheet, students answer probability word problems about a pair of dice. Students complete 5 word problems.
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Independent Events Probability
In this online math worksheet, high schoolers consider a variety of scenarios involving probability. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific...
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Pair of Dice Activity
In this dice worksheet, students begin with the premise that a dice is rolled, then solve a total of 6 probability and outcome problems. Answers are included on page 2.
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Conditional Probability
In this conditional probability worksheet, students determine compound probability of dependent events. This one-page worksheet contains ten problems.
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Probability Problems
In this probability instructional activity, 8th graders solve 10 different problems that include various types of probability situations. First, they determine the probability that the value of a rolled dice will be a multiple of five or...
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Probability
Seventh graders explore probability. In this probability lesson, 7th graders investigate modern day uses of probability. Students demonstrate probability through an experiment using dice.
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Plum Stone Dice Game
Students read about a Native American dice game online. They make replica games, and practice playing with them. They predict the outcome of the dice rolls by completing a dice throw chart.
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Probability - Two Events
For this probability worksheet, students determine the probability of two events occurring. The three page worksheet contains thirty problems. Answers are provided.
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4 Discrete Probability Distributions
Learners read and complete problems on how to solve discrete probability distributions. In this probability distributions lesson plan, students read math problem examples and solve them.
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Probability Game
Sixth and seventh graders complete and play a game that includes determining the probability of events. First, they list their names for each person playing. Then, everyone selects a number and roll the dice 100 times. They place a mark...
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Probability - Mutually Exclusive Events
In this probability worksheet, students read story problems and compute the probability of specified events. This one-page worksheet contains six mutually exclusive scenarios.
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Phenomenological Probability
High schoolers explore the concept of theoretical and experimental probability. In this theoretical and experimental probability lesson, students roll dice, draw marbles out of a bag, and draw a card from a deck of cards. High schoolers...