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...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes: Theoretical Probability
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"...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Theoretical Versus Empirical Probability
Use this site to learn the difference between theoretical and empirical probability. A practice page is included for each and two teacher resource pages contain classroom activities.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: When Does 50 50 Become 50 50?
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Bianca goes on a quest to find out if a coin toss really is a 50-50 proposition.
Other
The Actuarial Foundation: Are You Game? [Pdf]
Games are designed to help young scholars understand and apply concepts of probability. determine fairness.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Probability of Compound Events: Overview
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Watch a short video to review probability of compound events.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Ideas That Lead to Probability
This lesson plan sets the ground work for an introduction to and then exploring the concepts that are the foundation for probability. Lots of resources are available for teachers and students at this website.
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: Lesson: Conditional and Simultaneous Probability
This lesson plan deals with conditional probability and the probability of simultaneous events. Problems included in this lesson tend to have solutions that are counterintuitive. This presents an opportunity to investigate more deeply...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Intro to the Concept of Probability
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to introduce students to the concepts of probability. Students learn about the definition of, outcomes in, and calculations of experimental probability. Students use an...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Marbles
Students learn about sampling with and without replacement by simulating marbles being drawn out of a bag. Settings can be altered to explore conditional probability.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Two Colors
Students investigate conditional probability. This activity allows the user to simulate pulling red and green balls out of boxes. Teacher resources are included.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Gambler's Fallacy: Longest Streaks
In this activity, students explore longest the streak for 7 tosses of a coin. They understand the relationship between relative frequency and Theoretical probability. They will be able to clear misconceptions about probabilities of streaks.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Analyzing Number Cube Sums
In this activity, students extend their understanding of theoretical probability and patterns. They use number cubes, to build awareness that a fraction and its decimal and percent representation on the calculator are "close," but not...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Bit of Basic Blackjack
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson explores a little probability in the world of the card game Blackjack. While gambling is not mentioned or used in the lesson, students do find the probability of attaining a...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Is What Should Happen What Will Happen?
Students will investigate the differences between theoretical and experimental probability.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: To Replace or Not to Replace? That Is the Question
In this activity, students explore situations that involve compound events with and without replacement. They use different ways to conceptualize theoretical probability.
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: You're Probably Right, It's Wrong
In this activity, students perform a simulation to guess answers on a test and determine the experimental probability of passing the test. They then compare it with the theoretical probability.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Probably Not!
Students learn to find the theoretical probability of different female/male combinations in a family of kittens. Students will investigate empirical and theoretical probabilities and make a connection to Pascal's triangle and binomial...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Off to the Races
In this activity, students set weights for factors and observe how it affects the probability of a particular outcome. They set a weight for 3 factors for each of the six horses in a race. The three factors are weighted differently in...
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...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Heads I Win
Students predict the likelihood of getting heads or tails when tossing a coin. The results of tossing a coin are also shown graphically.
J Coffman
Joseph Coffman's Lecture Notes: Probability
The lesson examines probability. Students learn about simulations, theoretical probability, and geometric probability. Definitions, formulas, examples, and a quiz are included.