Are you teaching your students all about chance and probability and looking for fun hands-on probability activities? This print and digital (google slides) bundle of probability worksheets will reinforce the understanding of theoretical probability, experimental probability, language of chance, sample space, predictions, lists, tree diagrams, dependent probability events and independent probability events.
Both US and British English spelling and terminology included.
Overview of Activities
- The Probability Scale; Words Describing Chance:
Definitions and given scenarios
Chance and Data (language of chance); class surveys
2a. Theoretical Probability: Manipulatives
spinner numbers
spinner names
spinner colors
marbles
dice numbers
playing cards
2b. Theoretical Probability: Tree Diagrams and Grids
possible outcomes of two coins using a tree diagram and a grid
possible outcomes of a coin and a dice using a tree diagram and a grid
possible outcomes of a dice and a spinner using a tree diagram and a grid
3a. Theoretical and Experimental Probability:
Rolling a six-sided dice a given number of times.
Tossing two coins a given number of times.
Spinning a spinner a given number of times.
Picking an M&M color a given number of times.
3b. Experimental Probability:
Dice roll to find the number of trials and relative frequency of the numbers rolled.
Group experiment to toss a coin a given number of times and record the total heads, total tails, total outcomes, and relative frequencies of heads and tails (fractions and decimals) for each group. This is to prove the law of large numbers that indicate that as the number of trials increase, the relative frequencies tend to get closer to the expected value (0.5) of tossing a coin.
- Word Problems for both theoretical and experimental probability outcomes:
This section features ‘Work with Teacher’ and ‘Student Practice’ pages. The ‘Work
with Teacher’ page will enable you to demonstrate the solution for each problem.
I work on the PDF version of the file on the I-pad. This is projected on the interactive whiteboard (via a VGA cable) as I show annotations and working out of the problems.
The ‘Student Practice’ pages will enable your students to practice the problem-solving strategies modeled by you in the ‘Work with Teacher’ pages. Problems are the same format with only a change in the numbers.
Nature of Problems (sample space, lists, tree diagrams)
Picking a favorable outcome from given possible outcomes.
Problems pertaining to coin tosses and dice rolls
Real-life problem: left-handed, right-handed people
Problems involving possible combinations shown via a tree diagram
Problems with Spinner spins
- Independent Probability Events
Determining the Independent Probability of events using:
Playing Cards
Dice Numbers
Coin Tosses
M&M’s Candy
Spinners
Word Problems
Lists and Tree Diagrams
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