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Robert Santiago; Otis Williams; Jorge Zaragoza; Haiwen Chu; Monique Evans – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
All students want to talk about ideas that interest them, but often, multilingual learners are not offered high-challenge, high-support opportunities to connect everyday experiences to mathematical ideas. We describe a single class period that connects students' everyday opinions with two-way tables and notions of independence.
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Probability
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Russo, Toby; Russo, James – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2021
The authors set out to develop a series of mathematical games that could be played 'openhanded' over zoom using only a virtual deck of cards (deck.of.cards). This article briefly describes three games they have developed that other teachers might find valuable, whether for use in a remote learning environment or back in the classroom. Each game…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Probability, Educational Games, Distance Education
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Robinson, Alexander; Keller, L. Robin; del Campo, Cristina – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2022
COVID-19 pandemic policies requiring disease testing provide a rich context to build insights on true positives versus false positives. Our main contribution to the pedagogy of data analytics and statistics is to propose a method for teaching updating of probabilities using Bayes' rule reasoning to build understanding that true positives and false…
Descriptors: Data, Error Patterns, Visual Aids, Graphs
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Joe Champion; Ann Wheeler; Josephine Derrick; David Gardner – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
This article describes a hands-on geometric tiling art activity used in two third-grade classes and four fifth-grade classes in a rural public elementary school with class sizes of around 20 students each. The lesson investigates concepts in geometry, number sense, and probability. Examples of student work and takeaways for other teachers…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Bonnett, Laura J.; White, Simon R. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2018
Probability and chance are essential concepts, not just in statistics but in real life. We present an adaptable activity which investigates what we mean by bias, how we can identify bias, and how we can use it to our advantage!
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics, Teaching Methods, Statistical Bias
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Stewart, Andrew – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2019
The Birthday Paradox problem can be investigated either with a carefully constructed spreadsheet (for greatest precision) or a calculator process (for reasonable precision). A number of ways of approaching this problem as a class activity are provided.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Spreadsheets, Computation, Calculators
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Gazdula, Joe; Farr, Richard – Management Teaching Review, 2020
This article describes the adaptation and use of the Monopoly® board game as a simple simulator to help introduce the principles of probability and risk. It focusses on teaching experiences in an undergraduate business program and offers a new approach to teaching probability and risk with dice to produce a collaborative simulated gaming…
Descriptors: Risk, Probability, Learning Activities, Undergraduate Students
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Reiser, Elana – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
The two most popular decision-making processes are tossing a coin and playing rock, paper, scissors. In the activity described in this article, students find the theoretical probabilities of winning a coin toss and a round of the rock, paper, scissors game. They next devise strategies to win and test them out. Students then compare the theoretical…
Descriptors: Probability, Mathematics Instruction, Decision Making, Learning Activities
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Martins, Rui Manuel da Costa – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2018
Using the famous Birthday problem, we present here a practical activity that allows students to perceive the basic reasoning behind simulation and explore its potential. Through a playful approach with probabilities, students are led along a path that illustrates difficulties with intuition and introduces them to theoretical results for sample…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Probability, Intuition, Statistics
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Marckwordt, Jasmine; Muller, Alexandria; Harlow, Danielle; Franklin, Diana; Landsberg, Randall H. – Physics Teacher, 2021
Quantum computers are at the forefront of computing; however, few people understand how they work and their capabilities. We present two versions of an interactive activity designed for high school students (ages 13 to 18) that introduce a core quantum concept--"entanglement." The first version illustrates a simple connection between two…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, High School Students, Teaching Methods
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White, Simon R.; Bonnett, Laura J. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
The statistical concept of sampling is often given little direct attention, typically reduced to the mantra "take a random sample". This low resource and adaptable activity demonstrates sampling and explores issues that arise due to biased sampling.
Descriptors: Statistical Bias, Sampling, Statistical Analysis, Learning Activities
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James, Robin – Primary Science, 2019
Robin James was one of fifteen primary teachers who visited the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. They were tasked with finding a way to interest students in particle physics after the visit. The science of really small things, such as atoms, is as relevant and intriguing to young…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
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Jungck, John R. – PRIMUS, 2022
Finite Mathematics has become an enormously rich and productive area of contemporary mathematical biology. Fortunately, educators have developed educational modules based upon many of the models that have used Finite Mathematics in mathematical biology research. A sufficient variety of computer modules that employ graph theory (phylogenetic trees,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Models, Learning Modules
Dunlap, Mickey; Studstill, Sharyn – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2014
The number of increases a particular stock makes over a fixed period follows a Poisson distribution. This article discusses using this easily-found data as an opportunity to let students become involved in the data collection and analysis process.
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Statistical Distributions, Probability
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Hooley, Donald E. – Mathematics Teacher, 2014
The dice game Farkle provides an excellent basis for four activities that reinforce probability and expected value concepts for students in an introductory statistics class. These concepts appear in the increasingly popular AP statistics course (Peck 2011) and are used in analyzing ethical issues from insurance and gambling (COMAP 2009; Woodward…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Educational Games, Probability, Mathematical Concepts
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