Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Ideas That Lead to Probability
This lesson plan sets the ground work for an introduction to and then exploring the concepts that are the foundation for probability. Lots of resources are available for teachers and students at this website.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Tree Diagrams and Probability
This lesson plan helps young scholars develop tree diagrams and figure probability of events based on diagrams. Lots of resources are available to support teachers and students at this website.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Conditional and Simultaneous Probability
This lesson plan deals with conditional probability and the probability of simultaneous events. Problems included in this lesson tend to have solutions that are counterintuitive. This presents an opportunity to investigate more deeply...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Dice Table
A dice-table activity introduces students to probability and to converting probability to a simple fraction, a decimal, and a percentage.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Probability and Sports
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan. In it, learners explore where probability can be applied to professional sports. NCTM standards are listed for this lesson plan.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Intro to the Concept of Probability
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...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Probability and Geometry
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to give students an opportunity to connect probabilty and geometry. Students learn how to calculate probability, use geometry to solve probabilty problems, and, as an added bonus,...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Marbles
Students learn about sampling with and without replacement by simulating marbles being drawn out of a bag. Settings can be altered to explore conditional probability.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Handling Data, Probability
Here's what you need to help you teach probability. Games, helpful hints, worksheets, PowerPoints, and presentations will help you make probability more "hands-on."
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Mutually Exclusive Events
Use this site to learn what is means for two events to be mutually exclusive. Great examples show you how to calculate the probability of such events.
The Franklin Institute
A Penny Flipped Is Science Learned
What is the probability that a penny will land on heads when flipped? Test this on Ben Franklin's birthday and find out!
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Probability: Find Probability
This site provides great practice on the concept of probability. Students can first learn about the topic by watching a step by step instruction video that also points out areas of concern. Finally, students can practice their knowledge...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Probability: Probability as a Fraction
This site provides great practice on the concept of probability as a fraction. Students can first learn about the topic by watching a step by step instruction video that also points out areas of concern. Finally, students can practice...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Probability of Simple Events
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of the probability of simple events.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Probability of Compound Events
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of event probability.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Statistics and Probability
The online test demonstrates knowledge of the concepts used in Algebra I. The multiple choice questions assess students on statistics and probability. Topics include biases, samples, and surveys.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Complement Rule for Probability Grade 7
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize complementary events as two disjoint events, one or the other of which must occur.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Comparing Probabilities
In this exercise, students practice comparing probabilities. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to Probability
Introduction to Probability is a resource that provides assessment and teacher tutorials that focus on mathematic concepts such as probability, outcomes, events, probability distribution, laws, values and odd.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Misaddressed Mail
Try this probability challenge from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series. See if you can figure out the probability of putting three checks in the correct envelopes without looking. Also, discover how probability skills are used...
Other
Bowling Green St Univ: Introduction to Probability
This site from Bowling Green State University provides an introduction to probability. It discusses topics and activities such as interpreting odds, listing all possible outcomes (the sample space), basic probability rules, equally...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding the Probability of Two Dependent Events Occurring: Lesson 4
This lesson demonstrates how to find the probability of two dependent events occurring. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Finding the Probability of Two Dependent Events Occurring."
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Plinko Probability
Come on down! You are the next contestant on the Price is Right! Play Plinko and learn about probability at the same time!
