This lesson plan deals with conditional probability and the probability of simultaneous events. Problems included in this lesson plan tend to have solutions that are counterintuitive. This presents an opportunity to investigate more...

Play Plinko and develop your knowledge of statistics. Drops balls through a triangular grid of pegs and see the balls random walk through the lattice. Watch the histogram of final positions build up and approach the binomial distribution.

If you enjoy playing cards, this project will get you thinking about strategy in card games and help you become a better card player. Explore probability using computer simulations and the practice of counting cards.

Lesson plan to help students understand independent and dependent variables through a fire probability simulation.

The mathematics resource uses a downloadable java applet to simulate the outcome of a product of random numbers. Examples of multiplicative processes include the distributions of incomes and rainfall.

Suppose each box of a popular brand of cereal contains a pen as a prize. The pens come in four colors, blue, red, green and yellow. Each color of pen is equally likely to appear in any box of cereal. Design and carry out a simulation to...