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Activity: An Experiment with Dice

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
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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Curated OER

Tetrahedral Dice

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Put those thinking hats on and look at all the possible outcomes from rolling two different four-sided dice. The challenge in this problem is finding all the combinations when adding and subtracting the numbers from each die and creating...
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Google

Probability Project: Design Your Own Game

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Designing a game is the focus of this probability lesson. Groups develop and build a unique game, including directions for how to play, a calculation of the expected value of winning, and a personal reflection. The plan provides a...
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Curated OER

Dice Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Games and activities are wonderful for igniting interest in nearly any topic. With a pair of dice, your class will practice their basic math and social skills at the same time. Learners battle it out to see who can roll only odds or only...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Rolling Dice

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Rolling dice is a great way for your mathematicians to get a hands-on approach to probabilities. Use the chart to record whether they rolled a six during ten attempts. Calculate results individually (or in small groups) and then record...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Tossing Cylinders

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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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Rolling Twice

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Rolling dice is the best way to show your learners how probability comes in to play. Although this activity does not specify an activity, your mathematicians can try this probability with real dice to calculate their experimental...
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Curated OER

Mathematics Activities from Diverse Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Connect probability and odds with different games from around the world. Pick from games like Dreidel, Mancala, and a Navajo stick game called Ashbil. All 12 games include probability questions to encourage a discussion before or after...
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Lions, Tigers, and Probability

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students explore the probabilities of simple events, such as rolling a dice, in this interactive web lesson.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Probability

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Probability Simulations App

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Explore probability theory with interactive animation that simulates the rolling of dice, tossing of coins and generating random numbers. Evaluation options include bar graphs, table of trials data, settings for specifying the number of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Probability Simulations App

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This App allows students to explore probability theory with interactive animation that simulates rolling dice, tossing coins, and generating random numbers. They use evaluation options such as bar graphs and table of trials data....
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Are Dice Fair or Not?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is it fair or not fair? That is the question. Try this math challenge where you use your probability and number sense skills to determine whether or not a game is fair. Find out how mastering this challenge can be useful in real life...
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Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Introduction to Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Richland Community College provides an overview of probability including a list of probability rules. Several examples using dice are included.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Dice Probabilities

For Students 6th - 8th
You're playing Monopoly with a friend, and you've already got Park Place and you really, really want to get Boardwalk. If you're on Pacific Avenue, what are the chances you'll reach your goal? Here's an easy project that will show you...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Activity: An Experiment With a Die

For Students 3rd - 4th
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.
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California State University

Cal State San Bernardino: Intro to Probability Models

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The concept of random variables comes to life with this Applet used to roll one, two, six, or nine dice. The user selects the number of rolls to be completed, and the program quickly counts and graphs the results.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Hey, That's Not Fair! (Or Is It?)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students can use the calculator to simulate the dice rolls to play two different games. They will decide if the games give each player an equally likely chance of winning. They also compute the probability of an event...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: The Spinner: Your Decision Maker

For Students 9th - 10th
This handy math spinner does most of the work for you. You can choose whether to use numbers, dice, yes/no, etc., and how many sections there are on the spinner. Then you spin it and it tabulates the results, creating a bar graph as it...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Bit of a Dicey Problem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Short website offers a look into the theoretical probability of tossing dice. Several questions related to the throwing of dice are included.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Spies Like Us

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses on a spy trying to penetrate a fort's entrance, which is subsequently being guarded by three sentries. One student controls the spy and has a choice of where to move;...

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