American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Random Number Generator Model
This downloadable java simulation is an interactive linear congruent random number generator model. Students use paper and pencil to calculate the first few terms and then use the generator to check their calculations.
Other
Random.org the True Random Number Service
RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The site also offers a random coin toss program. People use the numbers to run lotteries, draws and sweepstakes and for their games and gambling sites.
Google
Google for Education: Randomness in Stochastic Models
In this lesson, students are introduced to methods used to create random numbers as well as ways in which they can be used in scientific experiments.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Random Number
Eric Weisstein's Mathworld site on the math behind random number generation. Good explanations and useful links make this site effective.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Fours and Sevens, Oh My!
Based off the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of random numbers and shows how human-generated random numbers are not always "really" random. This is done by framing the lesson in terms of...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: What Is Random
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore the conceptness of randomness, and to hopefully squash some student's ideas of what random really is. For example, the lesson points out that in a completely...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Creating Random Numbers
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the notion of randomness and shows that some sequences are in fact just pseudo-random. Students then use a formula to create a series of pseudo-random...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: That's So Random
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students how apparently random data is not always quite so random. This is done with a standard deck of 52 cards, which students analyze after dealing for randomness. In...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiplicative Process Program
The mathematics resource uses a downloadable java applet to simulate the outcome of a product of random numbers. Examples of multiplicative processes include the distributions of incomes and rainfall.
Cut the Knot
Cut the Knot: Probability Questions
This site defines probability and has a computer-based random number generator. The site has links to more than 100 probability problems which require some prior statistical knowledge to solve, or they can be great "openers" for teachers...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simulation and Randomness: Random Digit Tables
Discusses how random digit tables are used and presents two problems. Answers are accompanied by explanations.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Probability and Discrete Math: True Randomness
This lesson focuses on randomness; it explains that what we often think of as random is only random because we do not have the tools to make better predictions. However, true randomness does exists -- at the very foundations of matter. A...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Random Number Generator
Generate one or more random numbers within a range that you define. Enter the minimum and maximum for the range you want and enter the number of numbers you want generated.