The Power of Compounding

Probability reigns in a lesson based on compound events. Learners imagine that they have been imprisoned in a far away land, but that the king takes pity and gives them a chance at freedom based on the results of a spinner. They must...

Probability prevails in this assignment as youngsters determine the probability of finding a blue pen in a cereal box when they can come in blue, green, yellow, or red. Learners set up a simulation to determine the outcome of compound...

This is a good Common Core question that relates inflation to operations with decimals and rounding. Young learners are asked to find out if an amount of money can purchase the same amount of movie tickets in 2012 as it did in 1987. They...

Bring your young mathematicians into the fold. Scholars conduct an activity folding paper to see the relationship between the number of folds and the number of resulting layers in the 23rd installment of a 36-part module. The results of...

Sixth graders view a PowerPoint presentation introducing probability and the three ways of expressing it: fraction, decimal, and percent. They complete Experimental Probability assignment and enter their outcomes into a prepared...