Curated OER
Mystery Spinners
Take a spin with probability. Given a set of clues about the probability of events on a spinner, groups create their own device to match the clues. Using a jigsaw strategy, groups share their spinners and strategies with other groups....
American Statistical Association
Spinners at the School Carnival (Unequal Sections)
Everyone's a winner. Scholars analyze a spinner with five unequal sections, three of which represent winning a toy car and the other two represent winning a toy truck. They conduct an experiment to estimate the number of toy cars and...
American Statistical Association
Spinners at the School Carnival (Equal Sections)
Spin to win a toy car. A fun activity has pupils use a spinner in which three of the equal sections represent winning a toy car, and the fourth section represents no car. They record the number of wins after certain numbers of spins,...
Shodor Education Foundation
Spinner
Go round and round to compare theoretical and experimental probabilities. Learners set the number of sectors and the number of spins for a spinner. Then, a table displays the experimental and theoretical probabilities of the spinner for...
CK-12 Foundation
Applications of Probability: What Are the Odds?
Improve your chances of understanding odds. Scholars use an interactive spinner to increase and decrease the number of favorable and unfavorable sections on the spinner. This spinner helps them learn about odds.
EngageNY
Estimating Probabilities by Collecting Data
Take a spin to determine experimental probability. Small groups spin a spinner and keep track of the sums of the spins and calculate the resulting probabilities. Pupils use simulated frequencies to practice finding other probabilities to...
Inside Mathematics
Winning Spinners
Winning a spin game is random chance, right? Pupils create a table to determine the sample space of spinning two spinners. Individuals determine the probability of winning a game and then modify the spinners to increase the probability...
Inside Mathematics
Marble Game
Pupils determine the theoretical probability of winning a game of marbles. Individuals compare the theoretical probability to experimental probability for the same game. They continue on to compare two different probability games.
Curated OER
Math Manipulative and Math Teacher Tool Labels
Bring some organization to your class's supply of math manipulatives with this collection of printable labels. From rulers and base-ten blocks, to stopwatches and fraction circles, labels are included for dozens of different objects,...
National Security Agency
Are You Game? A Lesson Connecting Fractions and Probability
Exactly how fair are the board games children grow up playing? Young mathematicians investigate this questions as they work their way through this five-lesson series on basic probability.
Curated OER
TE Activity: Super Spinners!
Young scholars make spinners to investigate rotational inertia, rotational speed, angular momentum, and velocity. They make two sets of spinners that have different mass distributions and shapes. They complete a worksheet while...
Curated OER
Spinners of Color
Students review primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. They use a worksheet to select the combination of colors they want to try on the spinners. They predict the outcome of the spinning colors.
Curated OER
Probability
In this probability worksheet, students complete multiple choice probability questions about balls and spinners. Students complete 3 problems.
Curated OER
Probability: Post Test
In this probability learning exercise, students answer multiple choice questions about colored balls and spinners. Students complete 10 questions total.
Curated OER
Spinner Match-Up
In this probability worksheet, students match each spinner to the probabilities described below them. Students match 4 spinners up to 8 different problems.
Curated OER
Division Dilemma
In this division worksheet, students play a game with number spinners to figure out division problems and then solve them. Students solve 5 rounds of the game and answer 5 questions.
Curated OER
Probably or Probably Not?
Students utilize the interactive spinner and write down the probability of each color in reduced fraction form in the "Experimental Results" column, labeling each color and its corresponding probability in the same order as in the...
Curated OER
Verbal Spin-Off
In this making sentences worksheet, students use spinners to determine sentence patterns and write them with correct verb tense.
Curated OER
Design, Spin, and Graph
Pupils participate in a spinner activity and graph the results. They spin 10 times, tally the results, and discuss why the results occurred.
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan: Chances Are Talking Probability (Pdf) [Pdf]
An introductory lesson in probability for students in grades three to five. The concepts presented in this lesson are interwoven, over time, into a current unit of study. Students examine closely the "language" of probability as used in...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Super Spinners!
Use this hands-on activity to demonstrate rotational inertia, rotational speed, angular momentum, and velocity. Students build at least two simple spinners to conduct experiments with different mass distributions and shapes, as they...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Dynamic Paper
Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from -18 to 32 by 5's? You can create all those things and more.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Probability
[Free Registration/Login Required] What is the likelihood that an event will occur? Using the dice tool, students created spinners, tally tables, and building their own ice cream treats and pizzas.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Probabilty
[Free Registration/Login Required] This very detailed flipchart teaches This very detailed flipchart teaches probability while providing a lot of practice and instruction. It includes spinners, cubes, shapes, patterns and is a great...