1 Understanding Probability Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students learn the basic definition of probability and how to express it as a fraction, decimal, or percent. They compute probabilities in a variety of real-world contexts.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 5 Professional Commentary: This two-day lesson is a conceptually and contextually rich introduction to informal probability. Students play a game to learn about the four forces that affect flight: lift, drag, thrust, and gravity.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 6–7 Professional Commentary: Students are given 15 chips and a number line labeled from 2-12. They are instructed to place their 15 chips on the numbers that they think will represent the sums when two dice are rolled.... 4 Probability with a Random Drawing Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: Students repeatedly draw a block at random from a bag containing two red blocks, two blue blocks, and one yellow block, replacing the block and shaking the bag after each draw. Students keep track of results and after several trials, they conjecture how many blocks of each color are in the bag.... 5 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Solve a simple probability problem Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: Students must describe the probability of drawing a particular one of four balls from a bin. They have the option of using a calculator.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: A game based on the Apache game of "Throwing Sticks" is the foundation for this lesson on probability. Younger students can play the game and record results in a sticky note bar graph (ORC notes that the word occurrences is misspelled on the pictured bar graph).... 7 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Label a spinner to satisfy a given condition Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 4 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to label a spinner so that the probability of one event is twice the probability of another event; students must also explain their answer. This extended constructed-response question is a "hard" test item used in grade 4 of the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 8 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Identify color with highest chance of being chosen Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 4 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to identify the most likely outcome of a simple event. This constructed-response question is a "medium hard" test item used in grade 4 of the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 9 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Determine probability of a specific outcome Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 4 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to determine the probability of a simple event. This multiple-choice question is an "easy" test item used in grade 4 in the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 10 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Identify picture representing greatest probability (calculator available) Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 4 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to identify the picture that represents the greatest probability of a certain event. This multiple-choice question is a "medium hard" test item used in grade 4 in the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... |