Stockings make your legs warmer and math more enjoyable. A drag-and-drop interactive has pupils take stockings out of drawers to calculate probabilities. This includes dependent events where the probabilities depend on previous stocking choices.

Concepts

probability, compound probability, outcomes, sample spaces, dependent events

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use review questions as homework

Classroom Considerations

• Requires free CK-12 login 
• Individuals should have experience with basic probability

Pros

• Includes a written tutorial as well as a video
• Provides challenge questions to apply as a discussion prompt

Cons

• Learners may be confused, as the total number of stockings is not the same as originally shown in the diagram

Common Core

7.SP.C.6 7.SP.C.7.a 7.SP.C.7.b