Dice, Cards, & Darts

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Author: Katie Fowler and Peter Turner
School District: Clarkson University
Subject: Probabilities: Strategy and Representation
Grade Range: 4-5
Duration/Time Required:

  • Number of days: 2 (but can be adapted and extended)
  • Length of period: 40-60 minutes

Standard:

  • Content - Statistics & Probability (primary), Number Sense & Operations
  • Process - Representation (primary), Problem Solving

Objective: Students will become familiar with fundamental ideas of statistics and probability:
experiments, theory, representation, decision making
Evaluate relative merits of different forms of representing mathematical data.