Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simulations: Lesson 2
This lesson will explain simulations. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Simulations."
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Use a Simulation
Get independent practice using a simulation. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simulation and Randomness: Random Digit Tables
Discusses how random digit tables are used and presents two problems. Answers are accompanied by explanations.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: A Simulation
In this activity, students use the CellSheet Application to simulate a probability event. This activity simulates an experiment performing a survey. Students can see that the results of a random survey can vary widely if a small sample...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Statistics and Probability
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in statistics and probability.
PBS
Pbs: Our Genes/our Choices: The Probabilities of Problems: A Look at Inheritance
Learn how the genes inherited from two parents can be recombined in their offspring in this simulation activity. In addition, investigate the probabilities of passing on inherited genetic disorders.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Genetic Probably
Activity Overview Use the SciTools App to simulate a Punnett square. Make predictions about genetic crosses. Learn about the following concepts; genes, alleles, dominant alleles, recessive alleles, homozygous individuals, heterozygous...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Davisson Germer
Simulate the original experiment that proved that electrons can behave as waves. Watch electrons diffract off a crystal of atoms, interfering with themselves to create peaks and troughs of probability. Java required.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lessons: Advanced Fire
Lesson plan to help students understand independent and dependent variables through a fire probability simulation.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Uniform Spherical Distribution
The java simulation demonstrates methods for picking a random point on a sphere. Both the incorrect method of a uniform random distribution as well as the correct weighted distribution are shown.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Problems Involving and & Or
This tutorial helps students understand the probability of two events occurring when the words AND & OR are used. There are examples and practice problems. The teacher resource pages include a demonstration and a computer simulation.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: It's a Connected World: The Beauty of Network Science
Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. They also learn that graph theory is a useful part of mathematics for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, including...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Fire
Use this applet to demonstrate the spread of a forest fire. The applet takes into consideration the probability that a tree adjacent to a burning tree will catch fire, and it shows how much of a sample forest will burn. Repeat the fire...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Collecting Pens
How many boxes of cereal must you buy to collect all six different prizes? Calculating this using probability rules is much more difficult than finding the answer using simulation. This lesson plan includes worksheets for students that...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Leaf Drops
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students simulate the sinking of a yacht in the ocean, which is analogous to dropping a piece of paper in air. Students drop the paper multiple times and then calculate the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Law of Large Numbers: Equal Opportunities
In this activity, students can use the Probability Simulation application to roll a fair die and explore the Law of Large Numbers. They will conduct probability experiments that involve tossing a fair die, graph the results, compare the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Mathematics Sampler
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the notion of conditional probability, by having them consider a jar of various colored gumballs. The lesson makes brief use of the Probability Simulator on...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sharpshooter
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson forces students to consider the fallacy of computing probabilities AFTER a series of events have occurred. Known as Texas sharpshooting, student will find that finding the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Switch or Stick?
In this activity, students will simulate a popular game to find experimental probabilities.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Galton Board Model
Simulate the binomial distribution of a Galton board as a ball is dropped into the device. Investigate the probability of the ball going to the right or to the left with each bounce off a peg.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Plinko!
In this activity, students will simulate a popular game, find experimental probabilities, and then compare those probabilities to the corresponding theoretical probabilities.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: All in the Family
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students the scientific reasoning behind the societal taboo of incest. Students complete a Punnett square to determine the chances of an offspring inheriting two recessive...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Chances Are
Focus on the "language" of probability by listing events from your life that are certain, impossible, likely and unlikely to happen. Determine the likelihood of an event occurring using a probability scale, based on a data set, and by...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Racing Game With Two Dice
Simulate a game where "N" players roll two dice, and the lucky player has an advantage for reaching the finish.