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Probability & Game Theory
Young scholars explore the concept of probability. In this probability activity, students perform various probability experiments including flipping a coin, picking m&m's out of a bag, and the birthday problem.
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Intro To Probability
Students investigate the concepts related to the practice of using probability. They review the use of mean, median, and mode within the context of previous instruction. Students predict outcomes and calculate them in small groups. The...
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Probability Lesson Plan
Your learners will examine probability through experiments and dice games. Using a computer, your class will perform simple experiments to collect and analyze data to determine the probability of different experimental results. Learners...
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Third Grade Math
In this math review worksheet, 3rd graders answer multiple choice questions about probability, bar graphs, pictographs, and more. Students complete 25 multiple choice questions.
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Probability With a Random Drawing
Learners define probability, and predict, record, and discuss outcomes from a random drawing, then identify most likely and least likely outcomes. They conduct a random drawing, record the data on a data chart, analyze the data, and...
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Probability Polly
Learners evaluate if an event is certain, probable, or impossible. They design and create a spinner to be used in a game which demonstrates the possible outcome of an event.
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The Monty Hall Problem
In this the Monty Hall problem instructional activity, 7th graders recreate the TV gameshow, Let's Make a Deal, and figure out the probability of choosing one door over another in order to win.
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Authentic Activities for Connecting Mathematics to the Real World
Check out the handout from a presentation that contains a collection of high school algebra projects connecting a variety of mathematics to the real world. Activities range from simple probabilities to calculus. The activities...
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Shape Up!
An outstanding instructional activity on teaching the basic shapes and polygon names to young geometers is here for you. In it, learners investigate the role of basic polygons in the strength of structures. They use geoboards, rubber...
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Scatterplots
Math is all fun and games with this activity! Learners use an activity designed around hula hoops to collect data. They create scatter plots with their data and then analyze the graphs for correlation.
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Probability Cards: How Likely Will This Happen?
In this math worksheet, students investigate the probability of different scenarios. Students read 24 brief situations on the cards and rate them with one of the 24 words such as: no chance, poor chance, likely, certainly, possibly.
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Problem Solving Application: Use Data to Make Predictions: Problem Solving
In this making predictions instructional activity, learners use the understand, plan, solve, and look back method to help them solve the questions about probability. Students use the data within the problem to predict and solve.
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Handling Data: Probability, Chase Me game
Students participate in a simulation in which the aim is for the tortoise to catch up with the hare or vice versa. Moves are decided by throwing two dice. Adding together the numbers on the two dice tells you which animal moves one...
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Eye on the Prize challenge
In this spinner math worksheet, students draw arrows on spinners to show numbers needed to add totals and solve number combinations to total ten. Students solve four problems.
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A Game of Chance
Students explore probability through cooperative group activities and interactive video technique.
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Continuous Probability Distributions
Students practice continuous probability distributions. For this probability lesson, students calculate probability, use probability functions, and use rectangular distribution.
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Activity: Predicting Outcomes
Use this resource to provide a quick review of probability. Learners solve three story problems involving coin tosses and spinners. They make predictions about the possible outcomes. This worksheet could be used a precursor to a...
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Spy Game
Turn young scholars into detectives as they decipher encrypted messages. Introduce your class to modular arithmetic and have a little fun encrypting and decoding secret messages. The activity does not hit many content standards,...
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Design a Spinner
Spinners are usually used in board games not for math, right? Develop your class's understanding of ratios and probabilities with a spinner activity sheet that will require them to draw spinners according to specifications.
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Chaos
Students explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students use a applet that demonstrates chaos and probability of spread for a forest fire. Students also play applets about the Game of Life and Rabbits and Wolves,...
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Analyze This
Sixth graders use a video and the internet to determine whether a game is fair or unfair. In this probabilities lesson plan, 6th graders determine the fairness of a game based on the probabilities of the outcomes.
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Let's Take a Chance!
Young scholars investigate probability and the chance of an even happening. In this algebra lesson, students incorporate their knowledge of probability to solve problems and relate it to the real world. They learn to make decisions based...
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EMS Lesson 2: Outrageous Offspring
Young scholars investigate the principles of probability that can be used to predict hereditary traits.
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Hare and Tortoise Game
Students participate in the Hare and Tortoise Game and the "Castle Warwick" problem (from an Addison Wesley text). They use the computer to practice resampling statistics and explore different approaches to their tasks. They present th