Interactivate: Standard Expectation

10 items total

Organization: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Grade Band: Grades 3 - 5
Standard Goal: Data Analysis and Probability

propose and justify conclusions and predictions that are based on data and design studies to further investigate the conclusions or predictions

Probability: Playing with Fire	Lesson: Students use probability to determine how likely it is for each tree in a small simulated forest to catch on fire.
Playing with Probability	Lesson:
Probability	Lesson: Students learn about probability by predicting the outcome of planned experiments and playing racing games.
Probability: Playing with Fire	Lesson: Students use probability to determine how likely it is for each tree in a small simulated forest to catch on fire.
A Better Fire!!	Activity: Students run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos. Parameters: Forest density, wind direction, size of forest.
Adjustable Spinner	Activity: Create a game spinner with variable sized sectors to look at experimental and theoretical probabilities. Parameters: Sizes of sectors, number of sectors, number of trials.
Crazy Choices Game	Activity: Compare theoretical and experimental probabilities, using dice, cards, spinners, or coin tosses. Three different probabilities can be compared at once. Parameters: Type of probabilities, number of trials.
Racing Game with One Die	Activity: Experiment with probability and "fairness" with this simulation where two players each roll a die, and the lucky player moves one step towards the finish. Parameters: what rolls win and how many steps to the finish line.
Spinner	Activity: Create a game spinner with one to twelve sectors to look at experimental and theoretical probabilities. Parameters: Number of sectors, number of trials.
The Chaos Game	Activity: Play the Chaos Game by experimenting with probabilities. Learn about an apparently random process with a not-so-random, geometric fractal result.