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Curated OER

What's the Chance?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students conduct probability experiments with dice and coins. They watch a video for a variety of situations where calculating the probability is complicated by total number of possibilities. They solve problems presented in the video.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders respond to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett by illustrating a slide for a class slide show and writing a sentence to go with the illustration. Weather terminology are used in the sentences.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cloudy With a Chance of...

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will write a story. In this writing and meteorology lesson, 2nd graders read the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, then use KidPix to create a weather picture. The picture is imported into a word processor and the...
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Game of SKUNK

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Do I stand or do I sit? The class plays a dice game where they must decide to either continue to stand and play or sit down and keep their points. After the game, groups discuss individuals' strategies and see connections to the...
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Lesson Plan
Project Maths

Introduction to Probability

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
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...
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Assessment
EngageNY

End-of-Module Assessment Task - Precalculus (Module 5)

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Give your young scholars a chance to show what they've learned from the module. The last installment of a 21-part series is an end-of-module assessment task. It covers basic and conditional probabilities, expected value, and analyzing...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Applications of Probability: What Are the Odds?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Improve your chances of understanding odds. Scholars use an interactive spinner to increase and decrease the number of favorable and unfavorable sections on the spinner. This spinner helps them learn about odds.
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PPT
Curated OER

Language of Probability

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Enhance your next lesson on probability with a text rich presentation intended to teach the language associated with probability. The use of decimals, fractions, and percents are discussed as well are the terms, likely, unlikely, and...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Sayings Quiz: Chance

For Students 4th
In this English idioms activity about chance, 4th graders interpret sayings about chance and complete sentences using them correctly.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Chance Experiments, Sample Spaces, and Events

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Want a leg up on the competition? Show classes how to use mathematics to their advantage when playing games. Learners calculate probabilities to determine a reasonable scoring strategy for a game. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigation--What Are My Chances?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate theoretical and experimental probability by conducting a series of experiments with multiple trials, comparing results, combining results and making conclusions. They express probabilities as fractions,...
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Curated OER

Take a Chance on Probability

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
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...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Chance Experiments with Outcomes That Are Not Equally Likely

For Teachers 7th Standards
The fifth portion of the 25-part series introduces probabilities calculated from outcomes that are not equally likely. Class members use tables to calculate probabilities of events, add outcome's probabilities, and find complements....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chances Are......You're Right

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young mathematicians study probability. In this math lesson, learners calculate odds, and convert those into percentages of probability. Fractions are also used, making this lesson quite rich in some of the more difficult conversions...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chances Are...

For Students 4th - 5th
For this math worksheet, students perform 2 math investigations pertaining to probability--flipping pennies and rolling dice. Students record on the worksheet the results of each attempt, then graph the results. Note: The directions...
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Worksheet
Math Worksheets Land

Probability of Chance Events - Guided Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Show learners that their choices can change based on probability. The lesson discusses the idea of theoretical and experimental probability when choosing items or flipping a coin. Use the page with the additional resources provided for a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cutting Athletics = Cutting Scholarship Chances

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify athletic programs to be cut from school district budget, find out how many students have received college athletic scholarships in past, and interview young scholars and coaches to find out how scholarship search...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Most and Least Likely

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Explore probability with beginners using these multiple-choice visuals. They determine what they are most likely to choose from a bag by examining the contents. Each bag has three types of similar objects with one more prevalent than the...
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App
Beyond 12

GradGuru: Your Community College Advisor in Your Pocket

For Teachers 10th - 12th
High schoolers preparing to attend community college, and those already enrolled, will love this free app. Users receive reminders on their tablets and/or smart phones of deadlines, tips about how to increase chances for success, and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Return to Fred's Fun Factory (with 50 Cents)

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
The penny arcade gets the statistics treatment in this fun probability investigation. A non-standard game of chance is described and then the class is set loose to find missing probabilities, determine common outcomes, and evaluate...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

If .... Then Probably

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students are introduced to the concepts of probability and chance. Using data given to them, they organize and create a chart to display the information. Using this chart, they calculate the percentage of chance and probability and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's Raining Meatballs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students observe and demonstrate the process of summarization using the book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" by Judi Barrett. They silently read the story, and as a class discuss the five W's. Students then write a short summary of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Virginia Lotto South: Probability

For Students 9th - 12th
In this lottery worksheet, students solve 1 word problem. Students determine the probability of winning the lottery given various chances of drawing certain numbers.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chance (Probability) Operations in Dance Composition -

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate modern-dance choreographer Merce Cunningham's historically significant contribution to dance-making history. Specifically, 8th graders explore and practice Merce Cunningham's choreographic use of chance...

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