Probability Worksheets | Geometric | Compound | Conditional
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State standards require students to learn principles of probability and statistics at several stages of education. Probability worksheets are an effective way to help your students learn about and reinforce these subjects.
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There are a number of common core probability standards students must learn, some of which include:
- Use random samples to draw inferences about a population
- Use probability to make decisions
- Summarize and interpret data
- Find probabilities of events
If your grade level calls for students to meet objectives involving fractions, you can fold fraction lessons in to your probability lessons as well.
Creating Probability Worksheets
Because you can represent probability in myriad ways, you can incorporate lots of different types of images into probability worksheets to help guide and engage students. Of course, any creativity and experience you have with design programs can help immensely here.
The range of images you can use is limited only by your imagination. A spinning wheel is an easy image to create, and you can number and/or color different sections and ask students to state the probability the spinner has of landing on each section. For example, you could divide a circle into eight parts, and color two sections red, three blue, and the use a different color for each remaining. Then you could ask the probabilities of landing on red, blue, and one of the other colors. This will test their understanding of fractions as well, and you can even ask them to convert the answers to decimals to test their fraction-to-decimal conversion skills.
Dice, cards, and coins are other popular images you can incorporate in a probability exercise. Using coins, you can ask students the probability of drawing heads or tails after a certain number of flips. You can use more advanced problems as well involving flipping two coins at once, giving four possible outcomes to each flip rather than two (tails and tails, tails on coin 1 and heads on coin 2, tails on coin 2 and heads on coin 1, heads on both). For this type of worksheet, you could even create your own coins with a design program, with a design that reflects other coins’ images and mottos, but with content related to your school or community, for example, to make the activity a bit more fun and relatable.
Of course, having students actually flip coins in class to complete the worksheets could make them even more interested in learning.
To mix up the types of problems, you can also create a few word problems so the students can consider probability in another context.
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