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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGetting into the Electoral College
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Number Sense, Measurement & GeometryIn this unit of 3 lessons from Illuminations, students are engaged in activities involving percentages, ratios, and area, with a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkESPN: Sports Statistics
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, CalculusAt ESPN.com, students and teachers can find a great deal of statistical data on a variety of sports including football, baseball...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPets with Strange Tastes and Triomino Challenge
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, ProbabilityThis resource, from the Math Forum, features two math activities. The first is a logic puzzle that incorporates probability, and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMonte Carlo
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, ProbabilityThis simulation, from The Article 19 Group, Inc., allows students to experiment with rolling dice. They select the number of dic...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNumber Bracelet Game
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Addition & Subtraction, Measurement & GeometryIn this activity, from the Math Forum, students make number bracelets. Students choose two numbered beads and find the sum of th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPigeonholes
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Addition & SubtractionIn this Figure This! activity, students are asked to determine how many people would have to be in a school before it was guaran...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProbability by Surprise
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, ProbabilityThis resource, from Susan P. Holmes at Stanford University, features a collection of applets demonstrating probability. For exam...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDaily Math
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Calculus, MathematicsThis resource, reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, explores the ways math can help us in our daily lives. In this activit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrime Mathematics Enrichment
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Addition & Subtraction, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis and 4 additional..This NRICH resource, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, features an extensive collection of math activities. Topics cover...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrime Mathematics Enrichment
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Addition & Subtraction, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis and 4 additional..This NRICH resource, reviewed for grades 3-5 by Illuminations, features an extensive collection of math activities. Topics cover...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkI Win!
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Calculus, ProbabilityIn this activity from Figure This!, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, students explore probability as they investigate a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPigeonholes
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Mathematics, Addition & SubtractionIn this Figure This! activity, reviewed for grades 3-5 by Illuminations, students are asked to determine how many people would h...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBeginning Statistical Inquiries into the Scientific Method: Jelly-Side-Down
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Mathematics, Science, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityIn this Access Excellence activity, students describe what happens when a piece of jellied toast is dropped off a table. From th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStick or Switch
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, ProbabilityThis online activity from the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, is an electr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Letters of the Alphabet
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, ProbabilityThis lesson from Columbia Education Center, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, has students determine the frequency of le...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarble Mania Interactive
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Science, ProbabilityIn this interactive, created by Science NetLinks, the randomness and probability of marbles being pulled out of a "bag" are c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNew Kids in The Hall
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Calculus, History-Social Science, American DemocracyStudents assess the role of statistics in determining those athletes chosen to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Stude...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Problem of Points
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Calculus, ProbabilityAn age-old gambling problem led to the development of probability theory by French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat in the seven...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
Grades: 8Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, ProbabilityThis lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., is devoted to data structures and their applications to probability the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroduction to the Concept of Probability
Grades: 8Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Number Sense, ProbabilityThis lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., introduces the concept of probability and the basic set operations that...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0