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What are the Chances: A Game of Chance!
Sixth graders experiment with dice, playing cards, pennies and computer-generated simulations to calculate probability. They use compiled data to make predictions.
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The Winning Edge: Probability in Basketball: Lesson 2
Students calculate the probability of a desired outcome based upon a statistically significant number of discrete events (i.e. endgame free-throw attempts). They participate in an online simulation of basketball free throws.
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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. Students...
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Third Grade Math
In this math review activity, 3rd graders answer multiple choice questions about probability, bar graphs, pictographs, and more. Students complete 25 multiple choice questions.
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Fair Play- Probability Worksheet
In this fair play probability worksheet, 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...
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Unit 5 Probability
In this probability worksheet, learners determine the probability or possible outcomes for 40 problems.
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A Potful of Probability
In this probability worksheet, students complete word problems dealing with marbles, sports, gambling, and more. Students complete 6 problems total.
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The Probability Scale
Students collect data and make predictions. In this probability activity, students perform experiments calculating the chance of an event occurring. They draw conclusion based on their data.
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From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
Students see how division is used to help solve probability problems. They use tables as data structures where they are used to count outcomes and to compute probabilities. Students use games to help solve probability problems.
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Finding Probability
In this finding probability worksheet, students, with a partner, problem solve and calculate the answers to seven mathematical equations involving probability.
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Probability
Third graders conduct experiment, collect data, predict, record, and discuss outcomes, and analyze data for probability.
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Replacement and Probability
Students explore sampling with and without replacement. They explore the effects on the probability of drawing a desired object. Students examine probability and the difference between sampling with and without replacement.
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Probability With a Random Drawing
Students 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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The Old Lady and Probability
First graders practice probability by playing various games associated with song There Was an Old Lady.
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Probability Polly
Pupils 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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Virginia Lotto South: Probability
In this lottery worksheet, students solve 1 word problem. Students determine the probability of winning the lottery given various chances of drawing certain numbers.
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Moving Backward- Probability Enrichment Worksheet
In this addition and subtraction probability worksheet, 2nd graders play a game with a partner. They use the given spinner, and move along a number line based on the positive or negative number that they spin.
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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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"Lucky Charms": Interpreting Data and Making Predictions
Seventh graders determine if a "lucky charm" will increase their chances of winning a game. Students calculate the experimental probability of each player in a game. They observe and collect data from each activity. Students compare the...
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Statistics and Shopping
Explore how statistics are used in everyday life. Your soon-to-be savvy consumers use the Internet to find consumer-related statistical information and learn to make wise consumer decisions. Includes links to a practice sheet about data...
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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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Introduction to Representing and Analyzing Data
Represent data graphically. Allow your class to explore different methods of representing data. They create foldables, sing songs, and play a dice game to reinforce the measures of central tendency.
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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...