This is a series of two activities that should be used to support students in understanding the difference between experimental and theoretical probability
This is a series of two activities that should be used to support students in understanding the difference between experimental and theoretical probability
This resource consists of a Java applet and expository text. The applet illustrates the triangle experiment: A stick is broken randomly into three parts. The events of interest are that the pieces form an acute triangle, an obtuse triangle, or no triangle.
Exploring the concept of probability -- Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.
This resource consists of a Java applet and expository text. The applet illustrates the arrivals in a Poisson process where each arrival, independently, is one of two types. The time interval, the rate of the process, and the probability that an arrival is type 1 can be varied. The applet illustrates "splitting" a Poisson process.
This resource consists of a Java applet and expository text. The applet simulates a random sample from the uniform distribution on the interval [0,a], and computes standard point estimates of a. The bias and mean square error are also computed.
This resource consists of a Java applet and expository text. The applet is a simulation of the voter experiment, an interacting partile system that consists of a rectangular array of sites. At each discrete time unit, a site is chosen at random, a neighboring site is chosen, and the color of the first site is changed to that of the neighbor. The applet illustrates clustering of the colors and convergence to consensus.
Investigating and describing experimental and theoretical probabilities.Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.