Are your young mathematicians having a hard time making heads or tails of probabilities? It's no toss up—here is a resource that's sure to straighten them out! Learners run the interactive to toss a coin a different number of times. Using the results, they compare the experimental probabilities to the theoretical probabilities of random coin tosses. They finish by explaining their data and which test run came the closest to the what they expected.

Concepts

experimental probability, probability, probability experiments, theoretical probability, coin toss

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the applet to run simulations when the probability is 1/2

Classroom Considerations

• Individuals should understand basic probability
• Change the numbers in the questions to match the data collected in the table

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

• Provides a table to help organize the data
• Displays the data either as a list, frequency table, or ratio

Cons

• None

Common Core

7.SP.C.5 7.SP.C.6 7.SP.C.7.a 7.SP.C.8.a HSS-IC.A.2 HSS-IC.B.4 HSS-IC.B.5 HSS-CP.A.2 HSS-CP.A.3 HSS-CP.B.6 HSS-MD.A.3 HSS-MD.A.4 HSS-MD.B.6