Illustrative Mathematics
But Mango Is My Favorite...
Opening up a package of fruit snacks is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. When all the mango flavored ones are missing, learners calculate the probability that one bag versus the whole box is missing the...
Achieve
False Positives
The test may say you have cancer, but sometimes the test is wrong. The provided task asks learners to analyze cancer statistics for a fictitious town. Given the rate of false positives, they interpret the meaning of this value in the...
College of Marin
General Addition and Multiplication Rules of Conditional Probabilities
Making connections between multiple methods of solving problems is an important part of understanding conditional probability. The lesson shows solutions to problems using Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, formulas, and...
Georgia Department of Education
Analytic Geometry Study Guide
Are you looking for a comprehensive review that addresses the Common Core standards for geometry? This is it! Instruction and practice problems built specifically for standards are included. The material includes geometry topics from...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Introduction to Conditional Probability
Here is a turnkey lesson that walks young statisticians through the development and uses of conditional probability. From dice games to surveys, Venn diagrams to frequency tables, the class learns how a given can effect the overall...
Mathematics Vision Project
Probability
Probability, especially conditional probability, can be a slippery concept for young statisticians. Statements that seem self-evident on the surface often require a daunting amount of calculations to explicate, or turn out to be...
Kentucky Adult Education
Probability Lesson Plan
Roll the dice with this multimedia math lesson on probability. After first viewing a series of three short videos explaining probability, independent events, and dependent events, young mathematicians complete a set...
Curated OER
The Titanic 1
Were your chances of surviving the sinking of the Titanic better if you were a first-class passenger? Capture learners' attention with actual historical data to find the answer. They use two-way tables to calculate conditional and...
Curated OER
The Titanic 3
Can survival rates on the Titanic be explained by the "women and children first" policy or did rescue procedures favor the wealthy? Use actual historical data to explore conditional probability and independent events with your class....
Curated OER
The Titanic 2
Did the rescue procedures on the Titanic favor the first-class passengers? Use actual historical data to explore independent and dependent events with your class. Part of a series of worksheets, but can be used separately.
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Health Science: Back to Basics
This instructional activity focuses on unit conversion, proportions, ratios, exponents, and the metric system. Discuss measurement with your math class and demonstrate how to solve several health-science word problems. Give learners a...
Curated OER
How Do You Get to School?
Looking for a short assessment on probability? Learners use a two-way table to calculate a probability and a conditional probability. Multiple choice answers could be eliminated to create a short-answer activity for your class. There are...
Curated OER
But mango is my favorite…
What are the chances of getting your favorite flavor in your fruit snack package? Have your class use the given information to compute their own experimental data using the multiplication rule of independent events and compare it to the...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Introduction to Probability and Statistics
The online course consists of educational materials about probability and statistics. Lecture notes, exams, and assignments are included.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Probability and Outcome Discussion
This site is a virtual discussion between a teacher and student about probability and outcome. The virtual teacher poses wonderful questions for the students to think about. The virtual students then respond to the inquiries.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Algebra Ii: Conditional Probability
A module where students find and interpret probabilities; explore conditional probabilities, and use the conditional probability to determine if two events are independent; work with two-way tables as you analyze conditional...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Probability
A comprehensive guide for learning all about probability with definitions, basics of probability, terms used in probability, probability formula, conditional probability, probability distribution, probability density function, law of...
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 activity tend to have solutions that are counterintuitive. This presents an opportunity to investigate more deeply...
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Probability
Find definitions of several terms associated with probability, such as experiment, sample space, event, and empirical probability, and view example problems and step-by-step solutions. Complete practice exercises and check your answers...
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Topic Summaries: Probability
The topic summary outlines probability. Some topics reviewed are sample space, independent events, conditional probability, and theoretical probability. The resource consists of definitions, notes, and examples.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: El Azar Y La Probabilidad.
In Spanish. This is an interactive activity which introduces the basic concepts of probability theory. This unit ends with a first look at the probability of compound events.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Proportion of Ones
A problem of probability with the answer available to the reader.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Algebra 2: Probabilities
Discussion of probabilities through the use of examples and a video lesson. [0:35]
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: El Azar Y La Probabilidad
In Spanish. Interactive activities introducing some of the concepts of probability.