Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Seeing Is Believing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the concepts of probability. They use data to find the central tendency, median, and mode. Students design and play a game in order to practice the concepts. They also complete a table with data that is analyzed.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Data and Probability- What's the Chance?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate probability through a game. In this data lesson, students use dice and predictions to explore how probability works.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dice Games - How to WIN!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students play game to practice numerical skills.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Monty Hall Problem

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars define and differentiate between experimental and theoretical probability. In this statistic lesson, students play the game "Monty Hall" and use probability to come up with the best strategies to play the game.
AP Test Prep
College Board

1999 AP® Statistics Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Closer to 2010 than expected. Several of the 1999 AP® Statistics free-response questions align to Common Core standards. Items ask pupils to analyze residuals, two-way tables, and calculate expected values to determine the fairness...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Theoretically Speaking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers define probability. They determine outcome from a given situation based on simple probability. Students create experimental data using a coin and a number cube. They write how theoretical and experimental probability are...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Take a Chance!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners investigate probability and the chance of an even happening. In this algebra lesson, students incorporate their knowledge of probability to solve problems and relate it to the real world. They learn to make decisions based on data.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Probability of a Boy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of even change by participating in a coin flip activity. They research using the Internet to investigate the chance of giving birth to a boy.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Treats in a Basket

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore probability by participating in an experimental activity. In this number statistics lesson plan, students collaborate in groups in which they move a game piece around a board. Students calculate their probability of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Colored Cube Question

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how to determine the probabilities or likelihood of outcomes. They complete trials to determine probability while using different manipulatives. They determine how games can be made fair or unfair in this unit of...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving Strategy: Use Models: Problem Solving

For Students 6th - 7th
In this probability worksheet, students use math models and the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them complete the two probability questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"The Giver" by Lois Lowry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students predict results, design a model, and carry out trials to determine probability based on their experimentation.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Historiography on Robert Boyle: Was Boyle the Progenitor of Modern Science?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a warm-up activity by attending a football match writing an account of who won the game. They discuss how their account could differ from someone else's account of the game. They discuss how different people's...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Measuring

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science instructional activity, students concentrate on attaining new knowledge of the science standard using the creative medium of games and puzzles.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grade 5: Alphabet Frequency

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders collect and organize data from writing samples, use fractions and decimals to describe the experimental data, and use the experimental results to make predictions about the frequency of letter usage in the English language.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coin Shake-Up

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss problem and take turns in pairs, one tossing the coins while the other guesses whether the coins land with the same side up or different sides up. They record the results of each guess as same or different.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Intro to the Concept of Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to introduce students to the concepts of probability. Students learn about the definition of, outcomes in, and calculations of experimental probability. Students use an...
Lesson Plan
Other

The Actuarial Foundation: Are You Game? [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Games are designed to help learners understand and apply concepts of probability. determine fairness.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Crazy Choices Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Compare theoretical and experimental probabilities, using dice, cards, spinners, or coin tosses. Three different probabilities can be compared at once.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Stock Exchange Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Apply division to determine the probability of outcomes with a racing game.
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: The Game of Skunk

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a great math game for middle schoolers to gain an understanding of experimental probability.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Plinko!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students will simulate a popular game, find experimental probabilities, and then compare those probabilities to the corresponding theoretical probabilities.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The purpose of this lesson is to begin the process of helping students to learn the basic principles of probability. The students will also collect data, interpret data, and determine the fairness of the game rock, paper, scissors.This...