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Probability Games and Activities, Unit 10
Looking for tangible ways to practice probability with your class? Through 4 activities, students practice with experimental probability, using math to make educated guesses, then testing it through physically completing the experiment....
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Rolling Twice
Rolling dice is the best way to show your learners how probability comes in to play. Although this lesson does not specify an activity, your mathematicians can try this probability with real dice to calculate their experimental...
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Activity: An Experiment with Dice
Roll the dice with this activity and teach young mathematicians about probability. Record outcomes for rolling two number cubes in order to determine what is most likely to happen. Graph the data and investigate patterns in the results,...
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Tossing Cylinders
Everyone loves a lesson that involves throwing things around! To understand probability, your experimenters will predict how different cylinder-shaped objects will land when tossed. When the data is collected, they will calculate the...
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Range, Cluster, Gap and Outliers
There are a number of activities here where learners collect and record data, as well as, activities where the likelihood of an event happening is calculated given the experimental probability. Young statisticians organize information...
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Introduction to the Concept of Probability
Middle and high schoolers have a clarified definition of probability, they explore about outcomes in probability and how to calculate experimental probability. They use computers to learn about probability.
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Experimental Probability
While just a simple lesson, this activity on experimental probability could provide a way to connect this concept to real life. Learners begin by participating in a probability activity using a coin, and then move on to create their own...
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Experimental Probability
In this algebra learning exercise, students solve word problems of the possibility of an event occurring using experimental probability. There are 10 questions with an answer key.
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Math Regents Exam Questions: Theoretical and Experimental Probability
In this probability worksheet, students solve 19 multiple choice and short answer questions. Students find the theoretical and experimental probability of various scenarios.
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Concept: Dice Probabilities
In this probability worksheet, young scholars roll dice to determine the experimental probability of rolling each number on a die. The experiment is repeated using a dice rolling application on their computer. Students find the...
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Which Number Will Finish First?
Students conduct probability experiments. in this number lesson, students use spinners and conduct probability experiments. They collect and organize data on talley sheets.
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Probability
Students explore probability. In this probability lesson, students define theoretical probability and experimental probability. Students predict outcomes of hands on activities using coins and colored tiles, complete a chart...
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Probability of Childhood Games
Middle schoolers explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson plan, students find the probability of certain situations including spinning a spinner, drawing marbles from a bag, and rolling a dice.
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Probability
Sixth graders explore theoretical and experimental probability. In this probability lesson, 6th graders participate in several hands-on activities involving the comparison of theoretical probability to the actual results. Games include...
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Probability
Students explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson plan, students flip coins and draw marbles out of a bag to determine probabilities of a particular outcome. Students discuss the differences between experimental...
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Experimental Probability (Practice 20.5)
In this probability worksheet, students make a set of cards with letters (instructions provided) and use them to solve 5 probability investigations.
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Playing With Probability
Students rotate through work stations where they compute problems of theoretical and experimental probability. For this probability lesson plan, students use simulations of a lottery system.
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Let's Flip a Coin
For this probability worksheet, students use a TI graphing calculator to simulate flipping a coin and compare their results (experimental probability) to the expected results (theoretical probability). The five page worksheet contains...
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Geometric Probabilities
In this geometric probability worksheet, learners complete problems involving experimental probability, theoretical probability, and geometric probability. They perform experiments using a specified computer program. This three-page...
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Probability - What Are the Odds?
Students study the concept of probability. For this probability lesson, students define probability and visit an interactive spinner website to learn about theoretical and experimental probability. Students use pennies and work in pairs...
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Chaos
High schoolers explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students use a applet that demonstrates chaos and probability of spread for a forest fire. High schoolers also play applets about the Game of Life and Rabbits...
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Phenomenological Probability
Students explore the concept of theoretical and experimental probability. In this theoretical and experimental probability lesson, students roll dice, draw marbles out of a bag, and draw a card from a deck of cards. Students perform each...
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What is Probability? Original Lesson Plan
Students predict, using a fraction or a ratio, the possibility of an event happening and place that fraction or ratio on a Likelihood Line. In Part Two of the lesson, they conduct an experiment to determine theoretical and experimental...
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Probability and Sports
Students research topics on the internet where probability is relevant. Students study statistics and probability concepts by looking at practical questions that arise in professional sports.