PROBABILITY ACTIVITIES

• Some questions about probability

• Is it a boy or a girl?
  CONCEPT: relative frequency view of probability

• What's Roberto Alomar's batting average?
  CONCEPT: relative frequency view of probability

• Probability phrases
  CONCEPT: subjective view of probability

• When was John Tyler born?
  CONCEPT: subjective view of probability

• How large is Pennsylvania?
  CONCEPT: subjective view of probability

• Assigning numbers to words
  CONCEPT: subjective view of probability

• Using chip-in-bowl experiments to help measure probabilities
  CONCEPTS: subjective view of probability , calibration experiment

• Who's going to be the 1997 NBA champion?
  CONCEPT: odds

• Tossing coins
  1000 COIN TOSSES

  CONCEPT: constructing a probability table by simulation

• Ratings of Disney movies
  CONCEPTS: average value of a probability distribution , graphing probabilities

• The Minnesota cash lotto game
  CONCEPTS: odds , average value of a probability distribution

• Mothers and babies
  CONCEPTS: constructing a probability table by simulation , equally likely outcomes , listing all possible outcomes , Constructing a probability table by listing outcomes

• The collector's problem
  CONCEPTS: constructing a probability table by simulation , average value of a probability distribution

• Birthmonths
  CONCEPT: constructing a probability table by simulation

• Playoffs
  CONCEPT: constructing a probability table by simulation

• Rolling dice
  CONCEPTS: two-way table of probabilities , graphing probabilities

• Voting behavior in the Presidential Election
  CONCEPTS: two-way table of probabilities , graphing probabilities

• Playing yahtzee
  CONCEPT: two-way table of probabilities

AN INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY