Probably Probability

Virtual Dessert

The place to go to create a virtual dessert. Use this site to create compound events. Send a dessert to someone!

The Birthday Problem

This is a simulation to find the probability of someone having the same birthday in a group of citizens, or not.

Encarta Online

Encarta provides lesson plans on many topics including some interesting ones about probability.

The Great Penny Toss

Participate in the Ralph Bunche Schools's effort to determine whetherthe probability of tossing a penny will produce the expected results.

Classic Short Stories

Gary Lindquist collects classic stories here. The Lady, or The Tiger?,a story about chance can be found here. Activities surrounding the story can be found in the NCTM Curriculum and Standards Addenda series on Data and Chance.

The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy

The Agency has links to over 70 agencies that maintain the statistics on the page.

The United States Census Bureau

This government run site provides statistics about the United Statespopulation. Here you can find maps and learning tools.

The Center for Disease Control

This site has oodles of statistical information on diseases. It also can explain the disease and give you all sorts of scary information. Not great reading on a dark and stormy night.

Probability in the NCAA Finals

A lesson using NCAA statistics to direct students to draw conclusions and make graphs from historical data.


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