Curated OER
Changing It Up
How should a cashier stock a cash register with coins? Learners use mathematical modeling and expected value to determine how many rolls of coins of each type they should place in a cash register.
Curated OER
Pi Day: The Other Math Holiday!
Happy Pi Day! This collection of games, experiments, and activities leads participants through an exploration of the many aspects and attributes of that mysterious quantity, pi. Activities range from using statistical...
Curated OER
Fred's Fun Factory
Round and round and round she goes. Where she stops, nobody knows. This activity uses a common arcade game of chance, the spinning wheel, as a platform for computing expected values, interpreting results, and applying this knowledge to...
Curated OER
Flipping for a Grade
What happens when your teachers get tired of grading tests and want to use games of chance to determine your grade? How would you decide which game they should play? Learn how to use expected value and standard notation to compare two...
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
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...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Plinko Probability
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.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Plinko Probability
Drop balls through a triangular grid of pegs and see them accumulate in containers. Switch to a histogram view and compare the distribution of balls to an ideal binomial distribution. Adjust the binomial probability and develop your...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Probability
Twenty-three problems cover a variety of probability topics. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution" button to check each step of...
Brown University
Brown University: Seeing Theory
This resource provides interactive visualizations of probability concepts. Covers basic probability, compound probability, probability distributions, frequentist inference, Bayesian inference, and regression analysis. The authors are...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Probability
Use fractions and percentages to solve probability problems. Skillswise provides five factsheets, four quizzes, four worksheets, and a game pertaining to probability.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Probability
Get independent practice working with probability. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Probability Activity
The unit introduces the topic of probability and then students work in groups to find the odds of winning a game they design. The students learn how to summarize financial projections and appreciate the role of probability in real world...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Probability Activity
The unit introduces the topic of probability and then students work in groups to find the odds of winning a game they design. The students learn how to summarize financial projections and appreciate the role of probability in real world...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Coin Toss
A simple coin-toss simulation through which students explore experimental probability. Accompanied by links to related activities, discussions, worksheets, and materials for instructors.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Probability
Using the counting principle, permutations, combinations, probability, and odds, students will solve problems encountered in day to day experiences.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Right or Wrong
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students draw a connection between binomial expansions, probabilities, combinations, and Pascal's Triangle. The lesson is framed in the context of randomly guessing a number...
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Bernoulli Trials and Binomial Random Variables
Students learn about Bernoulli trials and binomial random variables. The tutorial investigates the statistics concepts through class notes and examples. Review exercises and a chapter quiz are included.
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Review Exercises: Probability
Students review probability. The resource consists of review exercises on the mathematics concepts.
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Quiz: Probability
The online quiz assesses student comprehension of math concepts. The quiz consists of true/false questions about probability.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Algebra 2: Probabilities
Discussion of probabilities through the use of examples and a video lesson. [0:35]
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Powerhouse Museum: Gambling (Math and Probability)
The resource consists of activities about mathematics and probability. Students learn about the history of gambling and the risk applied to the lotto, instant scratch-offs, roulette, and poker machines.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Combinations
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of combinations.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tool: Quiz on Probability and Odds
The online quiz assesses the students on probability and odds. Learners show understanding of advanced mathematical concepts.