Illustrative Mathematics
Tossing Cylinders
Everyone loves a lesson that involves throwing things around! To understand probability, your experimenters will predict how different cylinder-shaped objects will land when tossed. When the data is collected, they will calculate the...
Curated OER
Probabilities using Colored Cubes as Manipulatives
In this statistics worksheet, students model probabilities by using colored cubes to solve word problems. There are 4 questions to solve.
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Next Year's Seeds
Fifth graders explore genetic traits. In this genetic traits lesson, 5th graders discover how traits are passed from parent to offspring while examining plants. Students problem solve real world applications.
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Next Year's Seeds
Sixth graders explore agricultural issues using math and probabilities. For this agriculture lesson, 6th graders investigate real world situations in agriculture using math and probabilities.
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Analyze This
Sixth graders use a video and the internet to determine whether a game is fair or unfair. In this probabilities lesson plan, 6th graders determine the fairness of a game based on the probabilities of the outcomes.
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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...
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.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Rules of Randomness
Discuss methods of working with probabilities and quantum physics in this article.
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Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Probability and Odds
Eight problems cover the topics of probability and odd in different settings. 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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Making Decisions With Expected Values
Calculate expected values and then use them to make decisions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Density Curve of the Normal Distribution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept expands upon the previous by discussing further the normal distribution and the probabilities associated with it by looking at the normal density curve.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Probability and Discrete Math: What Are Probabilities
This lesson focuses on probability, a number between 0 and 1 which describes the likelihood of a certain event. A probability of 0 means that something is impossible; a probability of 1 means that something is certain.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: The Chaos Game
Play the Chaos Game by experimenting with probabilities. Learn about an apparently random process with a not-so-random, geometric fractal result.
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Shodor Interactivate: Advanced Monty Hall
Choose one of N doors to experimentally determine the odds of winning the grand prize behind one of the doors, as in the TV program "Let's Make a Deal."
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Shodor Interactivate: Crazy Choices Game
Compare theoretical and experimental probabilities, using dice, cards, spinners, or coin tosses. Three different probabilities can be compared at once.
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Shodor Interactivate: Life
Run the classic game of life, learning about probabilities, chaos and simulation. This activity allows the user to run a randomly generated world or test out various patterns.
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Shodor Interactivate: Directable Fire!!
Run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos.
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Shodor Interactivate: Rabbits and Wolves
Experiment with a simple ecosystem consisting of grass, rabbits, and wolves, learning about probabilities, chaos, and simulation.
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Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Probability
Find a quick, concise explanation of probability. An example is given and clearly explained.
Other
Bowling Green St Univ: Listing the Sample Space
This site from Bowling Green State University defines all possible outcomes (the sample space). Understanding the possible outcomes makes assigning probabilities to different outcomes easier. Several quick examples are provided for the...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Against the Odds Lesson Plan
Teachers can find ideas for their probability lesson plans here. For example, there is an interdisciplinary unit dealing with disabilities and probability as well as one using a field trip to Sea World.
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Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Odds
Find a quick, concise explanation of odds as a specific way to express probabilities. An example is given and clearly explained.