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The Game of Chance

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use manipulatives to determine the probability of outcomes. In this probability lesson plan, 3rd graders roll dice and use spinners to determine the probability of outcomes. They determine if games are fair/unfair based on...
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Probability of a Single Event

For Students 4th - 6th
In this probability worksheet, students solve thirty-six fractional probabilities involving the rolling of a dice to specific scenarios, game spinners, sweets in a bag and random colors. Students check their answers online as they go.
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Drawing Bugs Game

For Teachers 2nd
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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Modeling Conditional Probabilities 1: Lucky Dip

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Check out this detailed lesson plan on conditional probability!  Learners work individually and also collaboratively to analyze the fairness of a game and justify their reasoning. it includes detailed notes and many helpful...
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Ideas that Lead to Probability

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students use random number generators to determine probabilities of events. Students discuss if certain probable events are fair. Students determine fair ways to...
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Racing Game with One Die

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Pupils roll a die to figure out which car advances on a race track. They determine the rules for each car moving forward and, given the statistics of the winner, compare if it matches their predictions.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Discrete Random Variables: Roll the Dice!

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
And the winner is ... not always who it appears to be. An interactive gives the directions for a dice game that on the surface gives one player an advantage over the other. Pupils look closer at the possible outcomes and find the...
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Tetrahedral Dice

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Put those thinking hats on and look at all the possible outcomes from rolling two different four-sided dice. The challenge in this problem is finding all the combinations when adding and subtracting the numbers from each die and creating...
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Do You Feel Lucky?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore probability by using games based on probable outcomes of events. They name all of the possible outcomes of an event and express the likelihood of such an event occurring.
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EngageNY

Chance Experiments, Sample Spaces, and Events

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Want a leg up on the competition? Show classes how to use mathematics to their advantage when playing games. Learners calculate probabilities to determine a reasonable scoring strategy for a game. 
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College Preparatory Mathematics

Geometric Probability

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this geometric probability worksheet, students solve and complete 12 different problems that include determining the outcomes of various types of probability. First, they use a tree diagram or an area model to compute the desired...
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Fair Play- Probability Worksheet

For Students 4th
In this fair play probability activity, 4th graders use the given spinner to determine how many times a student will land on a vowel if they spin 18 times. They toss number cubes 20 times and complete a tally chart that shows the number...
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Dice Table

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Convert a table to probabilities. Pupils set up the winning rules for the sums of two dice. Using the rules, the applet fills out a table showing the winners for each combination. Learners determine the probabilities of winning for each...
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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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Unit 5 Probability

For Students 8th - 11th
For this probability worksheet, students determine the probability or possible outcomes for 40 problems.
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Probability & Game Theory

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, 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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A Potful of Probability

For Students 6th - 10th
In this probability instructional activity, learners complete word problems dealing with marbles, sports, gambling, and more. Students complete 6 problems total.
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Project Maths

Outcomes of Coin Tosses

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Flip a coin: heads, use the resource; tails, use the resource. The fourth of six installments of the Statistics & Probability unit looks at coin tosses and probability. The class conducts an experiment and sees that the outcomes of...
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Fair Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars participate in several chance activities and examine a few games for fairness. They become game designers who are asked to design a fair game for a toy company. Students must describe the rules for play and examine...
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Shake, Rattle, and Roll - A Bean Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students (organized in partners) analyse a game through probability to decide whether it is a fair game or not.
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Fair Games

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the statistics of playing games. Many games of chance and activities in maths text books involve rolling two dice and combining the scores, usually by addition. Students often find the probabilities of such events...
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Problem-Solving Application: Use Probability

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this spinner probability worksheet, students read one story problem about a spinner game and how fair it is. Students answer 4 short answer questions about solving this problem.
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Alfonso Ball

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Joey Alphonso made up this game, which is played using a gator skin ball and a tennis racket on a basketball court. The simple rules and strategy of the game are explained. This is a high-scoring, run around activity. Everyone can...
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Empirical Probability

For Students 8th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, students identify the probability of something happening. They use empirical probability to solve problems. There are 5 questions with an answer key.