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Tally Charts and Graphs
Fourth graders play the game 'Data Picking', where they collect data, place the data into a tally chart, and choose the circle graph that best represents the data. They go to the Mathfrog website and select 'Picking'. Students choose...
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Mean, Median, Mode and Range
Sixth graders identify the mean, median, mode and range in a given set of data. Using a specified website, they use their skills to play the game, "Train Race" where students find the mean, median, and rage of information to help the...
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Voting Systems
In this voting systems instructional activity, high schoolers read story problems and then use various methods to determine the probable winner of an election. They use the Plurality and Borda tables to determine outcomes. This...
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M&M Caper
Students participate in a game with M&M's to be introduced to percents and ratios. Individually, they estimate and record the number of candies they believe the bag holds and the amount of each colored candy. They open the bag and...
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Balancing Act
How many different interpretations of the mean are there? Scholars place numbers on a number line and determine the mean. They interpret the mean as the average value and as the balance point.
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Matching Pairs
Pupils examine the probability of the various findings in a game and determine the odds of winning. They differentiate between the facts of odds versus probability. Students use higher order thinking skills to explain how a problem is...
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Problem Solving Strategy: Use Models: Problem Solving
In this probability worksheet, students use math models and the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them complete the two probability questions.
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Let's Play Ball
In this probability worksheet, students read about a group of students who play six games of basketball and the results. Students solve 6 word problems about the basketball games.
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Heads & Tails Data Collection
In this data collection instructional activity, students use a penny and a dime to play a math game. Students flip the money in the cup and then record the number of heads and tails showing marking the coins in the box.
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Kindergarten Cootoes and Jealous Gentlemen
Learners play games to reinforce math concepts. In this geometry instructional activity, students identify the probability of an even occurring. They find the vertex of a parabola and Euler and Hamilton examples.
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"A Closet Full of Shoes" and Picture Puzzle Piece" by Shel Silverstein
Students explain the concept of simple probability.
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The Colored Cube Question
Fourth graders examine how to determine the probabilities or likelihood of outcomes. They complete trials to determine probability while using different manipulatives. They determine how games can be made fair or unfair in this unit of...
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Against all Odds
Tenth graders appreciate the role of probability in understanding everyday situations. They Communicate a summary of financial projections in appropriate reports, tables, and graphs after creating a new game of chance.
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Unexpected Answers
Students explore and complete a variety of activities demonstration probability. They make observations about the results of the activities. Students complete and discuss conditional probability. Also, students draw conclusions about...
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Drawing Conclusions
Middle schoolers play a probability game, then design and complete a probability problem concerning changing odds.
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Escape The Hangman
Seventh graders investigate the concept of probability. They use the game of hangman to create engagement and context for conducting the lesson. They create a spreadsheet with data that is given. Students make predictions based on data.
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Rolling For Value
Students participate in a lesson to comprehend the concept of probability while rolling dice. They recognize patterns while making observations and recording the data for each roll. Students also review place values while playing a game...
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You May Already Be a Winner!
Second graders flip coins and tally the outcomes. They play the You May Already Be a Winner! game with cards under their chairs. Some cards are winners, some might be and the others are not. They play to explain the probability concept.
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Probability Plus
Students participate in a variety of activities to understand statistics. They collect and interpret data. Also students distinguish the difference between a population and a sample. They make inferences and create arguments using data.
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Super Arcade Champion
In this stats worksheet, 11th graders complete a word problem given specific clues. They calculate how many different ways someone can be a champion in a game an arcade game. There is a solution.
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Theoretically Speaking
Learners define probability. They determine outcome from a given situation based on simple probability. Students create experimental data using a coin and a number cube. They write how theoretical and experimental probability are different.
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Unexpected Answers
Students consider probability problems with unexpected and surprising answers.
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Simulation and Statistics
Students perform simulation of video games as they explore statistics. In this algebra lesson, students relate concepts of statistics and data collection to solve problems. They decide their next step based on the previous assessment of...