Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 3 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 1)
Reinforce math vocabulary with a set of flashcards. Each card showcases a boldly typed word or a picture representation with labels. The topics are geometry related and include terms such as cones, faces, pyramids, sides, and more!
Scholastic
Study Jams! Find Probability
Sam bought tickets for a school raffle and wants to know if he has a good chance of winning. Help him find out with this step-by-step presentation on basic probability. Examples clearly model how to find the probability of simple events...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Probability as a Fraction
Pick a card, any card... and then follow along with this step-by-step presentation as Sam from the Study Jams! crew determines what chance he has of drawing a jack from a deck of cards. This context serves to clearly model how fractions...
Curated OER
Marble Grab Bag: Certainly? Maybe? Impossible?
Second graders use a hands-on activity and a data chart to explain the certainty, probability, or impossibility of drawing a particular color of marble from a bag. This lesson plan comes with an excellent website, and many good...
Curated OER
Probability Introduction
Introduce learners to probability through a vocabulary preview that covers words like impossible, likely, unlikely, and certain. After reviewing what probability is learners assess four sentences in relation to how likely they are to...
EngageNY
Chance Experiments
Class members are introduced to probability using terms such as impossible, unlikely, likely, and certain. Numbers between zero and one are associated with the descriptions of probability. Pupils find the likelihood of chance experiments...
Curated OER
Probability Concepts (Practice 20.2)
In this probability worksheet, students solve 16 problems pertaining to probability and likely, less likely, certain and impossible outcomes.
Curated OER
Probability for the Novice
The comprehensive, overall purpose in teaching probability is to help young scholars draw conclusions about the characteristics of a large group given a small sample taken from the group. Probability is related to predicting the chance...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Up on Top
Young scholars make bar graphs and identify items in the bar graphs as being likely, certain, or impossible. In this bar graphs lesson plan, students answer questions about the bar graphs using reasoning and communication skills.
Curated OER
Probability
Here is a fine presentation on probability, and the language of probability. Pupils are introduced to the words, impossible, unlikely, likely, and certain. Then, they consider a variety of events, and assign one of the words to describe...
Curated OER
Probability Polly
Students evaluate if an event is certain, probable, or impossible. They design and create a spinner to be used in a game which demonstrates the possible outcome of an event.
Education Development Center
Integer Combinations—Postage Stamps Problem (MS Version)
Number patterns can seem mysterious. Help your learners unravel these mysteries as they complete an intriguing task. Through examination, collaborative groups determine that they are able to produce all integers above a certain value by...
Project Maths
Introduction to Probability
Take a chance with an activity sure to improve your class's skills. An introductory instructional activity focuses on probability and chance. It shows how probability is always a value between zero and one, i.e., the probability of an...
Mathematics Vision Project
Module 5: Modeling with Geometry
Solids come in many shapes and sizes. Using geometry, scholars create two-dimensional cross-sections of various three-dimensional objects. They develop the lesson further by finding the volume of solids. The module then shifts to finding...
Curated OER
Probability- Likely or Unlikely
In this probability worksheet, 5th graders complete a chart by writing down 7 events that could happen to them. They label each event as being likely or unlikely to happen to them. They examine 5 events in a second chart, and write down...
Curated OER
Chances Are-Part 1
Students are introduced to the idea of probability by discussing the likelihood of events occurring. Pupils describe events that are certain, impossible, likely, and unlikely to occur. They determine the likelihood of an event occurring...
Curated OER
Who Plays What?
Ninth graders divide in pairs 3 cards with the words possible, impossible and certain on them. Ask questions of the class and get the students to hold up the word that describes the event (for example) Tomorrow it will snow. You have...
MEP: Demonstration Project
Unit 5 Probability Activities
Wow! Here is a 14-page package of activities to use when your math class is studying probability. There are a myriad of pertinent experiments for learners to try, such as rolling a self-constructed multi-faced three-dimensional...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Probability with Tree Diagrams
Middle school math whizzes view a PowerPoint tutorial on tree diagrams. Using "Anthonio's Pizza Palace," an interactive activity involving the selection of pizza toppings, they use Pascal's triangle as a tree diagram. This is an engaging...
Curated OER
Probability: Predicting Outcomes and Likelihood
Young scholars explore probability and its use in predicting events and outcomes. Through guided practice and hands on exploration, they determine whether an event has a probablity of likely, unlikely, impossible, or certain. Students...
EngageNY
Estimating Probabilities by Collecting Data
Take a spin to determine experimental probability. Small groups spin a spinner and keep track of the sums of the spins and calculate the resulting probabilities. Pupils use simulated frequencies to practice finding other probabilities to...
Curated OER
Take a Chance on Probability
Connect ratios, probability, and combination outcomes with a challenging activity idea. It guides your learners through probability of an event as fractions or ratios, on a number line, and with correct vocabulary. The class will be...
Curated OER
Finding Probability
Sixth graders explore the math concept of probability. In this probability instructional activity, 6th graders examine visual examples of finding probability. Students also practice solving problems that their instructors model.
Curated OER
What Is It?
Students explore the likelihood of events. In this logical thinking lesson, 3rd graders are given several scenarios and determine whether the possibility of the described event actually happening is likely, unlikely, or impossible. ...