"A Closet Full of Shoes" and Picture Puzzle Piece" by Shel Silverstein

If you keep rolling a die, you'll roll a five exactly one-sixth of the time—right? A probability lesson prompts young mathematicians to roll a die 100 times and use the data to calculate empirical probabilities. They then compare...

Give young mathematicians a chance to demonstrate their understanding of basic probability with this series of worksheets. Presented with different situations involving dice and decks of cards, students must correctly determine the...

Put on your thinking caps because middle school math has never been more interesting in this huge resource full of thought provoking questions. Written as a newsletter, the resource has 10 two-page newsletters with a variety of...

Make probability fun and test your learners' knowledge of math probability vocabulary. Print out this crossword puzzle and see if they know enough about outcomes and experiments to fill in the blanks. The answer key is attached in...

Learners discover the magic in mathematics as they solve numerical puzzles involving magic sums. They then make a conjecture as to why no additional examples are possible based on an analysis of the puzzles.

Your statisticians will rise to the probability challenge while watching this video. A toy elephant is placed into one of 24 drawers. What is the probability of correctly guessing which one? As more drawers are opened, does the...

A bag contains marbles of different colors. You put your hand in the bag to grab a marble. What are your chances of picking a given color? Learn how to set up this probability word problem and then solve it.

Probability is the likelihood that a given event will take place. So how do you determine the probability of a simple event? Watch this example using marbles for an explanation. [4:36]

Your learners will be surprised by the thought-provoking, counterintuitive puzzle presented in this short video that models a fun, fictional situation in which a game is played with two number cubes to decide which of two people wins a...

A bag contains marbles of different colors. You put your hand in the bag to grab a marble. What are your chances of picking a given color? Learn how to set up this probability word problem and then solve it.