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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sharpshooter ActivityTexas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sharpshooter Activity
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sharpshooter

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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 probability of an event in such a way is useless, driven by a simulation on the graphing calculator in which students fire ten shots and THEN establish where a target should be.

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Concepts

geometric probability, probability

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logical fallacy, simulation, numb3rs, numb3rs: sharpshooter, ti, texas instruments

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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