Monday, February 13, 2012

1.10 B Probability

 
1.10 B  The student uses information from organized data.
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1.10B Identify events as certain or impossible such as drawing a red crayon from a bag of green crayons (Continuous Standard)
2.11C Use data to describe events as more likely or less likely such as drawing a certain color crayon of a bag of 7 red crayons and 3 green crayons.
 
Identify events as certain, such as drawing a red crayon from a bag of red crayons
Identify events as impossible, such as drawing a red crayon from a bag of green crayons
 
 
 
Activities:
  • Teachers starts with a clear bag and places 5 red crayons.  The the teacher asks, "Is it certain or impossible to pick a red crayon?"  Answer: certain
  • Teacher starts with a clear bag and places 5 green crayons.  Then the teacher asks, "Is it certain or impossible to pick a red crayon?"  Answer: impossible 
  • Teacher asks students to define "certain" and "impossible"
    • certain - for sure, 100% yes, yes all the time
    • impossible - can never happen, 100% No, no all the time
  • Real Life Situations -
    • certain -
    • impossible -
  • Future Activities - use shapes, coins, linker cubes;  to determine certain or impossible.

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