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Lesson Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Curses and Recurses! It's Happening Again

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As a larger Insights into Algebra workshop for teachers from Annenberg Learning, this lesson plan teaches about recursion by interpreting experiments in probability. Find procedures, assessment questions, teaching strategies, examples of...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rock, Paper, Scissors Probability!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about probability through a LEGO MINDSTORMS NTX-based activity that simulates a game of "rock-paper-scissors." The LEGO robot mimics the outcome of random game scenarios in order to help students gain a better...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: It's a Connected World: The Beauty of Network Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. They also learn that graph theory is a useful part of mathematics for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, including...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mice Rule! (Or Not)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the relationships between genetics, biodiversity, and evolution through a simple activity involving hypothetical wild mouse populations. First, students toss coins to determine what traits a set of mouse parents...
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Probability: The Basics

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Provides an introduction to probability. Includes examples, two videos, and links to additional resources, e.g., exercises to try. There are also problems and discussions of them in the Comments section.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Introduction to Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity provides the opportunity to explore the difference between finding the probability of independent events and dependent events. It also addresses how to use a tree diagram when calculating conditional probabilities.
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Handout
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Probability and Area

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of probability and area. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes: Theoretical Probability

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of theoretical probability. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
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Activity
BBC

Bbc World Service: Figure It Out: Winning the Lottery

For Students 9th - 10th
The learning activity demonstrates to students real-world applications of mathematics. The resource shows examples of how probability and chance can be used in the real world.
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Interactive
Brown University

Brown University: Seeing Theory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State U.: Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a comprehensive online text about statistics which covers all the basic concepts.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: When Does 50 50 Become 50 50?

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Bianca goes on a quest to find out if a coin toss really is a 50-50 proposition.
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Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Data: Statistics in Science

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of how statistics allows scientist to explore the degree of uncertainty that accompanies conclusions that are based on data collected during experimentation and research.
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Algebra 1: Semester Ii: Rational Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module through which students learn about rational expressions including inverse relationships, multiplying and dividing rations expressions, adding and subtracting rational expressions, solving rational equations, and...
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Handout
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Andre Marie Ampere

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides a biography of the scientist Andre Marie Ampere.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The General Multiplication Rule

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
An explanation with examples of how to calculate probabilities of two dependent or independent events by multiplying their probabilities. Two practice problems are provided along with their explanations.
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Website
Columbia University

Columbia University: Expected Value Pdf

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A PDF explaining and giving examples to show how the expected value of a random variable indicates its weighted average.
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Website
Other

Center School District: Everyday Math Resources

For Students 3rd - 8th
Everyday Math Resources for 5th grade is an excellent resource for both students and teachers. Twelve math strands are linked to activities and interactive games that support the learning outcomes. Click on links at the top to access...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Probabilities of Compound Events

For Students 7th Standards
[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...
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use fractions and percentages to solve probability problems. Skillswise provides five factsheets, four quizzes, four worksheets, and a game pertaining to probability.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Algebra 1 for Ccss

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a complete, full-year Algebra 1 course with interactivity included in every lesson. Some lessons include videos, and all include interactives and inline questions that offer instant, per-answer feedback. Every lesson also has...
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Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Algebra Ii: Probabilities of Compound Events

For Students 7th Standards
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...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Middle School Math 7 for Ccss

For Students 7th
A complete CCSS Grade 7 Mathematics course that includes interactives in every lesson, plus videos, hands-on activities, and questions with immediate feedback. Every lesson also has specifically chosen 'Related Modalities' that teach the...