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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: What's the Point of Squash?

For Students 9th - 10th
Squash isn't an Olympic sport (yet!) but it has an interesting scoring system. If you reach 8-all in a game of squash, when should you decide to play to 9 points rather than 10? This activity is a starting point for mathematical...
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Interactive
US Department of Education

Nces: Kids' Zone: Chances

For Students 9th - 10th
Dice game allows you to see how increasing or decreasing the number of dice rolls affects an outcome.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: The Games' Medals

For Students K - 1st Standards
Who could have won the gold, silver and bronze medals? This activity is designed to be accessible to primary pupils at Key Stage 1.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Card Games Handling Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a fun game using cards and challenging students to think of probabilities.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Probability and Combinations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to help students understand probability and combinations. This flipchart includes games and activities to help illustrate the concept.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Dice and Card Math Games

For Students K - 1st
Kids love dice and playing with decks of cards. Leverage these two great (and inexpensive tools) to help students work on math facts, place value and more.
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Other

Web Quest: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a WebQuest written by Susie Hallar of the Warrensburg Schools in Warrensburg, Missouri. Students research 10 famous baseball players, then use the information they find to compute averages, standard deviations, central...
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Toto, the Singapore Lottery

For Students 9th - 10th
The probability of winning this popular lottery game is calculated for each type of winning combination. An interesting phenomenon is presented and its probability is also calculated.
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Website
Education Development Center

The Fun Works: Technology Career Choices

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about some technology careers you've probably never thought of.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Pick a Card, Any Card

For Students 3rd - 5th
No matter what your favorite card game is, we all wish we could use psychic powers to draw the card we want on our turn. You may not have psychic powers, but you might have the power of probability on your side. Do this experiment and...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Are Dice Fair or Not?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is it fair or not fair? That is the question. Try this math challenge where you use your probability and number sense skills to determine whether or not a game is fair. Find out how mastering this challenge can be useful in real life...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Jeopardy Math Quiz

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great math review for middle school students in a Jeopardy game format. It includes questions on probability, integers, mixed numbers/fractions, geometry, and problem solving. It...
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Website
Cut the Knot

Cut the Knot!: Interactive Mathematics: Geometry Articles, Theorems, Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains over five hundred Geometry articles, problems, puzzles, and games. Some sites relating to circles are provided within this list.
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Other

Utah St. Univ.: Coin Tossing Applet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interesting Applet that simulates the toss of a coin 100 times. A quick count of the results and an accompanying graph make this site useful for both teacher and student.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Education: Glencoe: Statistics and Probability: Luck of the Draw

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Instructions for creating and playing a simple card game through which students can practice calculating the interquartile range from a set of numbers.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Md.2, 5 Sounds Really Good! (Sort Of)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A friend of yours, Phil, writes to you asking about a new scratch-off lottery game. It costs $10 to play this game. There are two outcomes for the game (win, lose) and the probability that a player wins a game is 60%. A win results in...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Phantasia: Position, Chance, and Calculation

For Students 1st - 3rd
Students will play several learning games to explore the probability of events occuring.
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Interactive
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Easy Things for Beginners: Interesting Things for Esl

For Students 9th - 10th
Those familiar with ESL web sites will probably recognize this comprehensive site. On this page, the editors helpfully highlight a dozen or so word games and vocabularly activities geared to beginning ESL students and newcomers to the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Md Fred's Fun Factory

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A famous arcade in a seaside resort town consists of many different games of skill and chance. In order to play a popular "spinning wheel" game at Fred's Fun Factory Arcade, a player is required to pay a small, fixed amount of 25 cents...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Stay or Switch?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
You are playing a video game. At the end of every level, there are three boxes. One contains 10,000 points, and the other two are empty. You are allowed to choose one of the boxes, but before the one you choose opens, one of the other...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp.8 Tetrahedral Dice

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Many games use dice which are six-sided and fair (meaning each face on the die is equally likely to land face up). Many games also use the sum of two dice rolled at the same time to determine movement of game pieces. However, not all...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Life

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Unit Plan
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: El Juego De Vida

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how from simple rules and structures you can obtain complex and unexpected results. Enjoy the games.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Amof: Amazing Mathematical Object Factory

For Students 9th - 10th
The Amazing Mathematical Object Factory allows you to review many combinatorial objects by producing lists of mathematical objects. This game helps make discrete mathematics more accessible. Combinatorial objects are studied in discrete...

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