Scholastic
Study Jams! Combinations
With so many combinations, this colorful video allows your learners to mathematically figure out how many options they have when purchasing t-shirts. One instructional activity teaches how to find out the combinations, and the second...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Tree Diagrams
With so many toppings to chose from, make the ice cream truck combinations a fun math problem that teaches your learners about outcomes. The video introduces a tree diagram that allows your mathematicians to see how to create...
Curated OER
Activity: An Experiment with Dice
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,...
Curated OER
Charity Fair
What is the probability of picking the same color ball out of three identical barrels? If you wanted to design a game that made money, how could you structure a game and what would you charge for each chance? How much should you pay a...
Actis
Handling Data: Probability, Tree Diagrams
Clean, but captivating, two online simulations demonstrate probability for middle schoolers. They can choose the number of coins and tosses and watch as the results pile up. They can choose from a variety of spinner types and the number...
Curated OER
Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Math
Choose to supplement your probability unit with this resource and you won't be disappointed with the outcome. Teach young mathematicians to organize information using tree diagrams and lists in order to determine the possible outcomes of...
NY Learns
Investigation - What's in the Bag?
If you have or can create a set of tiles, numbered one through eight, then you can implement this hands-on lesson about probability models. Individuals draw a tile from a bag, record its number, and then return it to the bag. They...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Probability with Tree Diagrams
Middle school math whizzes view a PowerPoint tutorial on tree diagrams. Using "Anthonio's Pizza Palace," an interactive activity involving the selection of pizza toppings, they use Pascal's triangle as a tree diagram. This is an engaging...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Lions, Tigers, and Probability
Students explore the probabilities of simple events, such as rolling a dice, in this interactive web lesson.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: On Stage Probability
Students explore how tree diagrams can display possible outcomes in probability problems through this interactive web lesson.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Who Will Probably Come to the Party?
Students use tree diagrams to find possible outcomes and make predictions for probability story problems.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Probability of Independent Events
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of the probability of independent events. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Independent and Dependent Events
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of independent and dependent events. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Exploring Probability With Independent Events
Given a problem situation, students will use experimental data or theoretical probability to make predictions and determine solutions to situations involving independent events.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probabilities of Compound Events
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A detailed explanation of how to use tree diagrams and tables to find the probability of compound events. Also looks at dependent events. Includes example problems...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Algebra Ii: Probabilities of Compound Events
A module for students to build on prior understanding of probability to include compound events; examine independent and dependent events, and describe events as subsets of a sample space,; determine whether events are independent or...
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Fundamental Counting Principle
Students will continue to apply their understanding of compound independent events. They will calculate probabilities and represent sample spaces with visual representations.
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Experimental Probability
Learners will extend their understanding of probability by continuing to conduct experiments, this time with four-colored spinners. They will compare experimental results to expected results by first conducting an experiment, then...
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Compound Events & Sample Spaces
Seventh graders begin learning about compound events by considering independent events. They will consider everyday objects with known probabilities. Students will represent sample spaces using lists, tables, and tree diagrams in order...
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: Coin Toss
A simple coin-toss simulation through which young scholars explore experimental probability. Accompanied by links to related activities, discussions, worksheets, and materials for instructors.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Plinko!
In this activity, students will simulate a popular game, find experimental probabilities, and then compare those probabilities to the corresponding theoretical probabilities.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Venn Diagrams
This set contains statistics questions about Venn diagrams. The student interprets when a Venn diagram suggests such event pairs as mutually exclusive, complementary, and independent events, and uses these diagrams in determining...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Will Girls and Boys Be Equal?
Students explore concepts in probability and statistics. In this activity, they model a situation to find experimental probability and construct a box-and-whisker plot. They compare the experimental and theoretical probabilities for the...