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Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 7th Grade Math – Claim 4 Assessment

Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 7th Grade Math – Claim 4

7th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewBuild the model right out of the box. A few sample items show teachers how Smarter Balanced assessments may approach Claim 4, modeling and data analysis. Pupils use their skills to create equations or expressions to model the situation...
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The Lowdown — Your Odds of Winning Powerball: Probabilities of Compound Events Using Visuals Video

The Lowdown — Your Odds of Winning Powerball: Probabilities of Compound Events Using Visuals

3 mins 7th
CCSS: Designed
You have a greater chance of being crushed by a vending machine than winning the Powerball lottery. Part of The Lowdown: Real-World Math series, an engaging video describes how the Powerball works and how to calculate the probability of...
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Outcomes of Coin Tosses Lesson Plan

Outcomes of Coin Tosses

7th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Flip a coin: heads, use the resource; tails, use the resource. The fourth of six installments of the Statistics & Probability unit looks at coin tosses and probability. The class conducts an experiment and sees that the outcomes of...
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Can You Solve the Dark Coin Riddle? Video

Can You Solve the Dark Coin Riddle?

4 mins 6th - 12th
You're trapped in a dark castle with a pile of gold coins that a wizard will only allow you to leave with if you can solve his riddle. Math learners solve the riddle of the dark coin with the help of an engaging instructional video.
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Spinner Interactive

Spinner

6th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Go round and round to compare theoretical and experimental probabilities. Learners set the number of sectors and the number of spins for a spinner. Then, a table displays the experimental and theoretical probabilities of the spinner for...
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Two Colors Applet Interactive

Two Colors Applet

7th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Find the box with two green balls. The applet uses six balls, three green and three red, and hides them in three boxes. Pupils choose a box and click on it to reveal the color of balls inside. Using the chosen box, the simulation keeps...
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Rabbits and Wolves Interactive

Rabbits and Wolves

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
A change in a parameter can end in overpopulation. The resources gives pupils the opportunity to control the parameters of rabbits and wolves in a natural setting. Using the set parameters, the simulation runs and displays the population...
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Marbles Interactive

Marbles

7th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Grab some marbles from a bag. The applet simulates drawing marbles from a bag. Pupils determine the number of four colors of marbles in a bag and how many marbles to draw. Using information on whether order matters in the draw and if...
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Life Interactive

Life

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
How does life evolve? The interactive provides a simulation based on the Game of Life invented by mathematician John Conway. Users can run the applet with the preset rules and settings or adjust them to view whether overpopulation or...
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Buffon's Needle Interactive

Buffon's Needle

7th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Find the needle on a lined paper. Pupils run a simulation of dropping a needle on a lined paper. The probability of the needle crossing at least one line is pi/2. After each trial, the interactive displays the approximation of pi based...
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Racing Game with One Die Interactive

Racing Game with One Die

7th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Pupils roll a die to figure out which car advances on a race track. They determine the rules for each car moving forward and, given the statistics of the winner, compare if it matches their predictions.
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Experimental Probability Interactive

Experimental Probability

7th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Spin into a dicey experiment. Pupils use a spinner or a pair of dice to determine the experimental probabilities of each outcome. The interactive allows for either, one, five, or ten consecutive experiments. Using the applet, learners...
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Coin Toss Interactive

Coin Toss

7th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Are your young mathematicians having a hard time making heads or tails of probabilities? It's no toss up—here is a resource that's sure to straighten them out! Learners run the interactive to toss a coin a different number of times....
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Simple Monty Hall Interactive

Simple Monty Hall

6th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
What's behind door number one? A fun resource lets learners simulate the classic Monty Hall probability problem. Pupils choose a door, and after they select a losing door, they decide whether to switch or stay. Using their decisions, the...
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Dice Roll Project Lesson Plan

Dice Roll Project

7th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Learning about probability is as easy as rolling dice. Young mathematicians conduct a probability experiment by rolling pairs of dice. Using spreadsheets, they calculate the empirical probability of certain events.
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Consecutive Coin Flips Video

Consecutive Coin Flips

8 mins 6th - 12th
In a consecutive coin flip game, some outcomes far exceed others. Viewers watch a video in the Numberphile Coins series that shows that a heads-tail sequence is more likely than a heads-heads sequence. This occurs even though the...
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Pi and Buffon's Matches Video

Pi and Buffon's Matches

6 mins 9th - Higher Ed
There's no match for a helpful lesson about pi. Viewers of a video in the Numberphile "Pi" series watch as the narrator tries out the Buffon needle experiment with matches. The video explains how pi relates to the probability...
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Understanding Probability Maps Interactive

Understanding Probability Maps

9th - 12th
What's the likelihood of your class understanding probability maps? Young scientists explore the concept using a virtual dartboard in an interesting simulation. The darts establish a pattern around the bull's-eye, which provides a visual...
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EngageNY Grade 7 Mathematics: Module 5
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EngageNY Grade 7 Mathematics: Module 5

7th
CCSS: Adaptable
Seventh-grade mathematicians build an understanding of basic probability in a comprehensive 23-lesson unit. Starting with the calculation of probabilities in simple contexts, students go on to explore probability distributions and learn how to use random sampling to collect information about populations.
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Conditional Probability: Colorful Cubes Interactive

Conditional Probability: Colorful Cubes

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
An interactive provides a model to visually represent the formula for the probability of an outcome. Given 10 numbered color cubes, pupils arrange them on the top and bottom shelf to represent the probability fraction. The learners use...
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Empirical Probability: Scoring Interactive

Empirical Probability: Scoring

6th - 8th
Learners use an interactive to determine the probability that a soccer player will score a goal. Given data over the course of several days, they determine probabilities for several different situations.
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Expected Value: Win a Dollar Interactive

Expected Value: Win a Dollar

11th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Spin a wheel, land on a color ... and win. Learners create a graph to display the probabilities of the amount of money they can win by spinning a colored wheel. The pupils use the dollar amounts and their probabilities to calculate the...
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Expected Value: Creating a Discrete Probability Distribution Table Interactive

Expected Value: Creating a Discrete Probability Distribution Table

11th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Wanna roll the dice? Determine whether it is a good idea to play a dice game. An interactive presents the rules for a game of dice. Pupils find the probabilities of each event and calculate the expected value of the game. They finish...
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Normal Approximation of the Binomials Distribution: When to Approximate Interactive

Normal Approximation of the Binomials Distribution: When to Approximate

9th - 12th
Normalizing a binomial distribution — determine when it is all right. Given the rule of thumb of when it is appropriate to use the normal distribution to approximate a binomial distribution, pupils look at different scenarios. Scholars...
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