Activity Description Simulation of a coin toss allowing the user to input the number of flips thereby exploring experimental and theoretical probabilities. Toss results can be viewed as a list of individual outcomes, ratios, or table.

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Coin Toss

Place in mathematics curriculum:

This activity can be used to:
* introduce the notions of chance and probability
* show the difference between experimental and theoretical probability
* motivate the idea of sample size

This activity allows the user to explore experimental probabilities by simulating a coin toss. This activity would work well in groups of two for about ten minutes.

Preparations for this activity:

* Discuss the difference between theoretical and experimental probability
* Discuss why the experimental probability of getting heads (or tails) is not one half, especially with a small sample.