Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.
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P(A and B) = P(A) × P(B)
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Lesson Plans
Perspectives Video: Expert
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Virtual Manipulatives
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Student Resources
Educational Software / Tool
This Excel spreadsheet allows the educator to input data into a two way frequency table and have the resulting relative frequency charts calculated automatically on the second sheet. This resource will assist the educator in checking student calculations on student-generated data quickly and easily.
Steps to add data: All data is input on the first spreadsheet; all tables are calculated on the second spreadsheet
- Modify column and row headings to match your data.
- Input joint frequency data.
- Click the second tab at the bottom of the window to see the automatic calculations.
Type: Educational Software / Tool
Problem-Solving Tasks
This problem solving task challenges students to determine if two weather events are independent, and use that conclusion to find the probability of having similar weather events under certain conditions.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
The task is intended to address sample space, independence, probability distributions and permutations/combinations.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Students answer questions about the probabilities of independent and dependent events.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This problem solving task lets students explore the concept of independence of events.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
The purpose of this task is to assess a student's ability to explain the meaning of independence in a simple context.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This task lets students explore the concepts of probability as a fraction of outcomes using two-way tables.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This task asks students to calculate probabilities using information presented in a two-way frequency table.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This problem solving task asks students to determine probabilities and draw conclusions about the survival rates on the Titanic using a table of data.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Virtual Manipulatives
In this activity, students adjust how many sections there are on a fair spinner then run simulated trials on that spinner as a way to develop concepts of probability. A table next to the spinner displays the theoretical probability for each color section of the spinner and records the experimental probability from the spinning trials. This activity allows students to explore the topics of experimental and theoretical probability by seeing them displayed side by side for the spinner they have created. This activity includes supplemental materials, including background information about the topics covered, a description of how to use the application, and exploration questions for use with the java applet.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
This online manipulative allows the student to simulate placing marbles into a bag and finding the probability of pulling out certain combinations of marbles. This allows exploration of probabilities of multiple events as well as probability with and without replacement. The tabs above the applet provide access to supplemental materials, including background information about the topics covered, a description of how to use the application, and exploration questions for use with the Java applet.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
Parent Resources
Problem-Solving Tasks
This problem solving task challenges students to determine if two weather events are independent, and use that conclusion to find the probability of having similar weather events under certain conditions.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
The task is intended to address sample space, independence, probability distributions and permutations/combinations.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Students answer questions about the probabilities of independent and dependent events.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This problem solving task lets students explore the concept of independence of events.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
The purpose of this task is to assess a student's ability to explain the meaning of independence in a simple context.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This task lets students explore the concepts of probability as a fraction of outcomes using two-way tables.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This task asks students to calculate probabilities using information presented in a two-way frequency table.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This problem solving task asks students to determine probabilities and draw conclusions about the survival rates on the Titanic using a table of data.
Type: Problem-Solving Task