Curated Video
Understanding the Law of Large Numbers: Comparing Experimental and Theoretical Probability
Understand the concept of experimental probability and compare it to theoretical probability using examples of picking marbles from a bag and tossing a coin. The teacher demonstrates how the law of large numbers states that as the number...
Curated Video
Explain discrepancies in results from a probability model by comparing the experimental and theoretical probabilities
In this lesson you will learn how to explain discrepancies in results from a probability model by comparing experimental and theoretical probabilities.
Curated Video
Finding Experimental Probability: Creating Ratios
In this video, the teacher explains how to find the experimental probability by creating a ratio. The example used is of a basketball player named John, who is practicing his shooting. The teacher clarifies the difference between...
Curated Video
Comparing Experimental and Theoretical Probability
This video explains how to find experimental probability by conducting experiments and collecting data. It also discusses the difference between experimental and theoretical probability and demonstrates how to compare them. The video...
Curated Video
Analyzing Independent and Dependent Events: Finding Probabilities
This video uses examples with marbles and coin tosses to demonstrate how to calculate theoretical probabilities based on the number of favorable outcomes over the total possible outcomes. The video emphasizes the difference between...
TED-Ed
The Last Banana: A Thought Experiment in Probability
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...
TED-Ed
How Many Ways Can You Arrange a Deck of Cards?
Entertain and grab your learners' attention with a short video clip that engagingly teaches the concept of a permutation and how a factorial is a wonderful shortcut for theoretical probability calculations.
Flipped Math
Unit 12 Review: Probability
It is likely the class knows the answers. Pupils review the concepts from the short unit on probability. Learners watch as the video works several types of problems highlighting the concepts and then work through a series of problems to...
Flipped Math
More Probability
Multiply the amount of probability using addition. Pupils use probabilities to make predictions in problems. They find shortcuts to find probabilities instead of listing the entire sample space. The learners then use the multiplication...
Flipped Math
Introduction to Probability
Chances are high that the class will probably like the lesson. Pupils view an introduction to probability and use the information to find probabilities of simple events based on the sample space. Scholars then use their knowledge of area...
PBS
The Hunger Games
The odds will be in your favor that young statisticians will volunteer to participate in this experiment. After watching a short video that is part of the PBS Math at the Core middle school collection, scholars engage in a lottery and...
Crash Course
Probability Part 1: Rules and Patterns: Crash Course Statistics #13
Probability is all about patterns and rules. An instructive video explores the tenets of probability. It starts with basic probability, moves on to compound probability, and explores the addition and multiplication rules for...
Numberphile
Penney's Game
Stack the odds in your favor. Scholars watch a video in the Numberphile Coins series that introduces a game where contestants pick a sequence of three coin flips (such as HHT) and keep flipping a coin until that sequence appears. The...
TED-Ed
Will We Ever Be Able To Teleport?
Quantium entanglement? The Uncertainty Principle? A cubit of data? Spooky Action at a Distance? How do these terms figure in an answer to the question of whether or not it will ever be possible to teleport? A short video provides all the...
PBS
What is a Random Walk?
Take a walk down random lane. Scholars learn about random walks, where a random process like flipping a coin determines the next move of the walk. The video explains the difference between recurrent and transient walks based on whether a...
Mathed Up!
Probability
How likely is it to draw a blue marble? Pupils find the likelihood of events and connect that to the probability of the event. They find the probabilities of simple events and show their probabilities on a scale.
Brightstorm
Introduction to Probability
How likely is it that the videos will teach viewers about probability? Demonstrate probability as a ratio of favorable outcomes to total possible outcomes with an instructive video. Six problem videos cover examples in basic...
Curated OER
Calculating the Probability of Simple Events
You can calculate the theoretical probability of an event without actually testing it. Mathematicians who are new to probability or those who simply need to review will benefit from watching this video of a teacher solving two problems...
Corbett Maths
Probability Scale
Scale up your knowledge of probability. Young mathematicians watch a video that describes probability in terms of a scale. They see how probability is a value between zero and one, representing a continuum from impossible to certain.
Corbett Maths
Probability
Simple probability can be quite simple. An instructive video describes how to determine probabilities by considering possible outcomes. It uses a variety of contexts as examples to cover the topic.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Experimental Probability
Discusses the difference between theoretical and experimental probability and how to use what information you have in order to estimate the likelihood of a given outcome. [6:55]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Outcome of an Event
This lesson demonstrates how to use the Fundamental Counting Principle or tree diagrams to find the probability of an event occurring. Students can watch a video tutorial and then take an online quiz.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Creating Area Models and Finding Theoretical Probability
On this site students watch a video tutorial on the concept of finding theoretical probability. Students learn to calculate theoretical probability by using an area model.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Theoretical Probability Using Area Models
This site provides a video tutorial on the concept of theoretical probability. Students learn how to find the theoretical probability of a compound event by using an area model.