Thursday, September 5, 2013

Tips and tricks for teaching your students probability

Probability is a difficult math concept to teach your students. They can quickly become lost and confused. When it comes to teaching these concepts simple is best. It is also very important to keep the lesson fun. Your students will relate to a game. Today the internet has so many resources for teachers to use to aid them in the classroom. Take advantage of these resources and have fun!

So what exactly is Probability? Probability is the chance that something will happen. So a great way to introduce this is money. Everyone relates to money and when a coin is tossed there are only two possible outcomes. Those two options are heads or tails. Therefore we can determine that the probability of landing on heads is one half. The probability of landing on tails is one half.
Check out this awesome video of a teacher teaching these concepts with candy

Resources: mathgoodies.com

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