Chance and Probability Activities Theoretical & Experimental Probability Bundle

Are you teaching your students all about chance and probability and looking for fun hands-on probability activities? This print and digital bundle of worksheets, task cards, slideshows and note-taking sheets on Probability 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 files included.

Resources in this Bundle:

1. Print and Digital Sheets
   Sheets (Pdf) x 80
   Sheets Digital (PowerPoint) x 80
   Sheets Digital (Google Slides) x 80
   Assessment (print & digital) 61 questions
   Teacher’s Copy for all 7 units - explicit working out key for each problem
   Cover Sheet (student) For all 7 units - compile all sheets into a booklet, this eliminates the need for students to write their names on each page.

2. Print and Digital Task Cards
   192 Print Task Cards
   Recording Sheets
   Answer Key
   Language of Chance Boom Deck
   Probability With A Standard Dice Boom Deck
   Probability With Playing Cards Boom Deck

3. Slideshow and Guided Notes
   PowerPoint Presentations - 125 Slides
   32 Cornell Style Note-taking Sheets

Overview of Activities

1. 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 colours
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 colour 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.

1. Word Problems for both theoretical and experimental probability outcomes:

Nature of Problems (sample space, lists, tree diagrams)

Picking a favourable 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

1. 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

2. Dependent Probability Events
   Determining the Dependent Probability of events using:
   Playing Cards
   Visual Images
   Letter Tiles
   Marbles
   M&M’s Candy
   Word Problems

3. Assessment
   10 Print and Digital Sheets comprising 61 questions.