Probability

Links verified on 12/23/11

1. Adjustable Spinner - Students can create a game spinner with variable sized sectors to look at experimental and theoretical probabilities.
2. Analyzing Game Probabilities - Take a five question multiple choice quiz. Self-checking.
3. Chances - What many people refer to as 'good luck' can actually be explained by a little knowledge about probability and statistics. Our dice game allows you to see how increasing or decreasing the number of dice rolls effects an outcome.
4. Coin Flip - This coin flipper builds a column graph one flip at time [you may need to agree for the browser to run active-X controls].
5. Coin Toss - Toss enough coins to make a prediction about probability (maximum number of tosses 1000, but you can keep tossing to get a larger data set).
6. Ken White's Coin Flipping Page - Decide which kind of coin to flip (penny or dime) and how many flips you want to see.
7. Leap Frog - Design an experiment to answer a question, collect information, and interpret the results using charts.
8. Lions and Tigers - Predict the likelihood of a simple event (rolling a die) as a fraction.
9. Marbles - Students learn about sampling with and without replacement by modeling drawing marbles from a bag. Parameters: Number and color of marbles in the bag, replacement rule.
10. Me Too Probability - Use a tree diagram to display possible outcomes of who will come to the party.
11. On Stage Probability - Use tree diagrams to display the possible outcomes of casting a play.
12. Probability - Take a five question multiple choice quiz. Self-checking.
13. Probability - The BAMZOOKi Zooks are under starter's orders. Get ready to race! Interactive game from BBC.[New as of 12/23/11]
14. Random Ball-Picking Machine - Experiment with a random generator at a BBC site to collect data to make decisions about probability. After you finish working through the ball-picking activity.
15. Spinner - Students can create a game spinner with one to twelve sectors to look at experimental and theoretical probabilities. Parameters: Number of sectors, number of trials.
16. Spy Guys Interactive - Probability - Watch the video and respond at various places Lesson 19 .
17. Two Colors - Students choose between three boxes and choose one marble from the box to look at conditional probabilities.
18. Understanding Experimental Probability - Experiment with experimental probability using a fixed size section spinner, a variable section spinner, 2 regular 6-sided number cubes or design your own number cubes.
19. Who Will Probably Come to the Party? - Use problem-solving steps and a tree diagram to display possible outcomes and make predictions.