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"Eggs-ploring" Math with Jellybeans
Learners work in pairs with a small bag of jellybeans to estimate the number of candies in their bags and then figure out how many groups of 10 jellybeans are contained in their bags. They then graph the information using a pictograph or...
Kenan Fellows
A Farmer’s Challenge to Breed to the Greatest of Grapes
What does your class know about GMOs? Are they savvy to selective breeding? Challenge young minds to engineer the greatest crop of all time using a hands-on genetics unit. Learners discover the good and bad details of selective breeding,...
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Stock Market Math
Students calculate commission for a stock transaction through a broker using the relationship between percentages and decimals. They decide which stocks are preferable based on the price to earnings ratios listed on the stock market quotes.
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Hairy Heredity
Young scholars learn that heredity comes down to the flip of a coin with this cross-curricular math and science lesson. Using smiley faces as a model, young scholars toss coins to determine which dominant or recessive...
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Solving Exponential Equations
The power to solve exponential equations lies in the resource. Scholars first learn how to solve exponential equations. An activity matching cards with equations, intermediate steps, and solutions strengthens this skill.
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Probability Fun
First graders use probability terminology to describe all possible outcomes of certain events. In this probability lesson, 1st graders use counters to create a pretend "purse" of objects. Students create their own probability...
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What's Math Got To Do With It?
Students explore numbers, computation, ratios, proportions, probabilities, statistics, and money in this six lessons unit. Practical applications in the real world are emphasized through an interactive approach to math in these lessons.
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The Probability Project
Students work together to complete a project on probability. In groups, they solve probability equations based on the formula and scenerio given to them in a PowerPoint presentation. To end the lesson, they take a quiz on each problem...
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Finding the Probability of Combined Events
Eighth graders investigate the probability of combined events. For this eight grade probability lesson, 8th graders use a sample space, two events, and their intersections to determine the probability of each event, their...
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Probability and Statistics
Pupils reason mathematically as they solve problems dealing with probability of an even occurring. In this probability lesson, students differentiate between different rankings of candidates running for leadership. They identify...
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Math in Society
Twelfth graders determine probabilities of real-life events such as life expectancies, winning a lottery ticket and the break-even premium. They apply how life-expectation tables are used to estimate the probability that an individual...
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Expected Outcome (Probability)
Young scholars practice and determine expected values of experiments as well as distributions of experiments. They find the area of rectangles and circles and determine elementary probabilities. Probability exercises begin with quarters...
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Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics: Lesson 4
Eighth graders investigate the concepts of probability while performing data analysis. They apply statistical methods in order to measure or predict some possible outcomes. The information is collected and graphed, 8th graders analyze...
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Probability Activity
Students differentiate between theoretical and experimental probability. In this probability instructional activity, students create a puzzle and calculate the probability of an event occurring. They use problems dealing real life...
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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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EMS Lesson 2: Outrageous Offspring
Students investigate the principles of probability that can be used to predict hereditary traits.
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Intro To Probability
Middle schoolers 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...
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Probability- Many Stage Experiments
Learners list the sample space of an experiment. In this statistics lesson, students calculate the number of favorable outcome in a given sample space. They define and apply mutually exclusive events versus not mutually exclusive events.
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The Probability Scale
Students collect data and make predictions. In this probability instructional activity, students perform experiments calculating the chance of an event occurring. They draw conclusion based on their data.
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Finding Probability
In this probability worksheet, 4th graders review the concept of probability and use the spinner to calculate the answers to four mathematical questions.
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Probability
Learners explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students draw golf balls of different colors out of a bag and determine the probability of drawing a particular colored ball. Learners make a number wheel with a...
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Probability Of One Event
Students investigate the concept of probability. They use example problems in order to measure the likelihood of various outcomes. The lesson includes dialogue to be used by the teacher during direct instruction. They also use class...
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Probability Two Events
Young scholars investigating the concept of probability practice the concept using a variety of different example problems. The lesson is delivered in a question and answer format. The frequency of answers is recorded in a data table for...
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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.