Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
Apply division to determine the probability of outcomes with a racing game.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fire: Modeling Probability
In this lesson students will understand probability and chance and understand the results of probability and chance in real life situations.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Spinner
This interactive learning activity allows students to explore experimental and theoretical probabilities using a spinner. Teacher resources are included.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Birthday Paradox
This project shows how mathematical probability sometimes contradicts our intuition. Despite the fact that there are 365 days in a year, if you survey a random group of just 23 people there is a 50:50 chance that two of them will have...
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PBS
Pbs Mathline: The Smithville Families Lesson Plan [Pdf]
A coin is used to determine the birth of children and the students are to determine the probability of whether the child is boy/girl. Printable lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Probability What Are the Odds?
This lesson plan introduces students to experimental and theoretical probability using spinners and trials with pennies. Students also research careers that involve probability, and create a video presentation. It provides an assessment...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Theoretical and Experimental Probability
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of Theoretical and Experimental Probability. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Probability and Area
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"...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Probability and Area Models
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of area models and probability. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The General Multiplication Rule
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.
Other
The Actuarial Foundation: Are You Game? [Pdf]
Games are designed to help students understand and apply concepts of probability. determine fairness.
Scholastic
Scholastic: The Power of Probability
Young scholars will learn and reinforce skills for strategies to identify favorable and total outcomes, calculating simple and compound probability, sampling and proportions and using probability concepts to solve real-world problems.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Chance
Captain Jack is going out fishing. Can you help him catch some fish?
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Probability
Get independent practice working with probability. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Probability and Statistics K 6
A compilation of resources devoted to teaching probability and statistics. The resources are broken into seventeen different objectives that have a problem, activity, and a game.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Tree Diagrams and Probability
This lesson plan helps students 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: Dice Table
A dice-table activity introduces students to probability and to converting probability to a simple fraction, a decimal, and a percentage.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Probability and Geometry
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to give middle schoolers an opportunity to connect probabilty and geometry. Students learn how to calculate probability, use geometry to solve probabilty problems, and, as an...
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: Place Value Spinners
Students also explore probability and patterns in place value by using two spinners and analyze and record the results.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Chances Are
Focus on the "language" of probability by listing events from your life that are certain, impossible, likely and unlikely to happen. Determine the likelihood of an event occurring using a probability scale, based on a data set, and by...
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Handling Data, Probability
Here's what you need to help you teach probability. Games, helpful hints, worksheets, PowerPoints, and presentations will help you make probability more "hands-on."
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Chances Are
Students explore the likelihood of events using circle graphs and percentages in this interactive web lesson.