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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkESPN: Sports Statistics
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, 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 / 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 / HyperLinkMarble Mania Interactive
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Probability, Science, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and 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 / HyperLinkBeginning Statistical Inquiries into the Scientific Method: Jelly-Side-Down
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Life SciencesIn 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 / HyperLinkNew Kids in The Hall
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, History-Social Science, American Democracy, CalculusStudents 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 / HyperLinkGetting into the Electoral College
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Number Sense, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityIn 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 / HyperLinkProbability Tutorial and Counting Cards Game
Grades: 6Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, MathematicsProbability Tutorial and Counting Cards Game - BBC Education web site. Students learn about using the probability scale, and wor...Contributor: CTAP Region 4Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExplorations with Chance
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Probability, MathematicsIn this lesson, from Illuminations, students analyze the fairness of certain games by examining the probabilities of the outcome...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPets with Strange Tastes and Triomino Challenge
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Probability, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and 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 / HyperLinkThe Letters of the Alphabet
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Probability, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and 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: DocumentWildfire Simulation
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Science, Probability, Algebra & Functions, Mathematics, Earth & Space ScienceThis reproducible activity, from an Illuminations lesson, guides students through the process of simulating a forest fire to see...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Problem of Points
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Probability, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, CalculusAn 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 / HyperLinkFire
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Probability, MathematicsIn this student interactive, from Illuminations, students can see the results of a fire if a forest is densely planted in a rect...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBoy or Girl
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Probability, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, CalculusThis classic mathematical logic problem has stumped many over the years. This problem asks, In a two-child family, one child i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPigeonholes
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Addition & Subtraction, MathematicsIn 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 / HyperLinkSampling & Probability
Grades: 6Subjects: Probability, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilitySampling & Probability: Discovery & Practice - Video on Demand lesson from Annenberg Media on sampling and probability that enga...Contributor: CTAP Region 4Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStick or Switch
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Probability, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and 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 / HyperLinkIntroduction to the Concept of Probability
Grades: 8Subjects: Number Sense, Probability, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., introduces the concept of probability and the basic set operations that...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIdeas That Lead to Probability
Grades: 8Subjects: Probability, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., introduces ideas that are the basis of probability theory. By using eve...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Monty Hall Problem
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Probability, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, CalculusThis classic mathematical logic problem has stumped many over the years. This problem revolves around the game show Let s Make ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0