Find the probability of an event. An understanding of basic probability is essential to understanding weather reports, medical findings, political polls, employment practices, video games and lotteries.
Students have many misconceptions about situations that involve chance.
Using manipulatives, games and experiments, graphic organizers, brainstorming, teacher-led discussion, Let's Take a Chance will provide an enjoyable experience for students to learn the basics of probability. The unit requires seven to eight 90 - minute class periods. The last class session could be used to collect culminating activities and for administering the written teacher-made assessment. Probability gives us a method of assigning numbers, which tell how likely something is to happen. Although probability can be expressed as a percent, more often it is expressed as a fraction between 0 and 1.