Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Will Girls and Boys Be Equal?
Students explore concepts in probability and statistics. In this activity, they model a situation to find experimental probability and construct a box-and-whisker plot. They compare the experimental and theoretical probabilities for the...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Stock Exchange Game
In this game, two players compete in a stock exchange, working with the concepts of theorertical and experimental probabilities and expected value. They must enter the probability and payoff of winning a single game, then observe the...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Adjustable Spinner
An interactive game for learning theoretical vs experimental probability.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Coin Toss
A simple coin-toss simulation through which students explore experimental probability. Accompanied by links to related activities, discussions, worksheets, and materials for instructors.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Analyzing Binomial Probabilities
A tree diagram is a helpful tool for determining theoretical or mathematical probabilities. Toss a coin and watch as branches represent a toss of either head or tails.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Probability
Students learn about probability by predicting the outcome of planned experiments and playing racing games.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Spinner
This interactive learning activity allows students to explore experimental and theoretical probabilities using a spinner. Teacher resources are included.
Other
The Actuarial Foundation: Are You Game? [Pdf]
Games are designed to help students understand and apply concepts of probability. determine fairness.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Probability
Students examine predictable outcomes of events such as flipping a coin or rolling a dice. They see that these events repeated many times form a pattern of distribution. They explore the probability concepts of most likely and least likely.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Use Random Numbers
Students use a graphing calculator to find experimental probabilities by generating random numbers, using the random integer function. This Technology Lab accompanies Lesson 10-5 from the 2007 Holt, Rinehart and Winston Algebra 1 textbook.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Making Predictions With Probability
Practice predicting the number of times a certain event will happen. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: The Game of Skunk
This is a great math game for students to gain an understanding of experimental probability.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Law of Large Numbers: Equal Opportunities
In this activity, students can use the Probability Simulation application to roll a fair die and explore the Law of Large Numbers. They will conduct probability experiments that involve tossing a fair die, graph the results, compare the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Is What Should Happen What Will Happen?
Students will investigate the differences between theoretical and experimental probability.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Switch or Stick?
In this activity, students will simulate a popular game to find experimental probabilities.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Number Cube Sums
Students explore experimental probability and patterns in fractions, decimals, and percents by rolling two number cubes and recording and analyzing the sums that come up.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Random Drawing Tool
Students are able to to visualize the difference between theoretical and experimental probabilities with this computer based tool.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Bit of Basic Blackjack
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson explores a little probability in the world of the card game Blackjack. While gambling is not mentioned or used in the lesson, students do find the probability of attaining a...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Adjustable Spinner
Use this tool to create a spinner to examine experimental and theoretical outcomes.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Off to the Races
In this activity, students set weights for factors and observe how it affects the probability of a particular outcome. They set a weight for 3 factors for each of the six horses in a race. The three factors are weighted differently in...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Activity: An Experiment With a Die
Explore probability with this dice experiment. Includes instructions for recording data on a table, creating a graph, questions to investigate, a probability formula, and a discussion of probability.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Who's the Winner?
If two goals are scored in a hockey match between two equally-matched teams, what are the possible scores? This activity gives an opportunity to investigate probability in the context of sport, and is designed to be accessible to...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Probability and Statistics K 6
A compilation of resources devoted to teaching probability and statistics. The resources are broken into seventeen different objectives that have a problem, activity, and a game.