Nctm: Figure This: Matching Birth Months Activity

Publisher

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Activity

Nctm: Figure This: Matching Birth Months

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Here's a interesting challenge! Out of six people in a room, what is the probability that everyone was born in a different month? An investigation that explores the probability of an event occurring. Discover how this skill is used in real life situations in this one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families collection.

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Concepts

chance, data collection, probability

Additional Tags

interpreting data, math concept, measure of chance, odds, probability of an event, statistics chance, figure this, nctm, problem solving, probability applications

Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

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