Get Free Access for 10 Days!
Assessment

Fair Game?

Curated and Reviewed by Lesson Planet
This Fair Game? assessment also includes:

The game should be fair at all costs. The mini-assessment revolves around the ability to use probabilities to determine whether a game is fair. Individuals determine compound events to calculate simple probabilities and make long-run predictions. The task was part of a national, normed math assessment.

29 Views 30 Downloads
CCSS: Designed
Concepts
probability, probability word problems, theoretical probability, probability experiments, fairness, compound events
Show More Show Less
Additional Tags
math
Show More Show Less
Instructional Ideas
  • Conduct a mini-lesson on what makes a game fair
  • Have groups create rules that would favor one player over the other
Classroom Considerations
  • The class needs to know prime numbers
  • The task was part of a national, normed math assessment
Pros
  • The discussion of the item includes typical understanding and misconceptions for specific scores
  • The resource includes instructional implications based upon the pupils' performance
Cons
  • None