Probability

I have been teaching probability over the past 5 weeks to students in grades 5 to 8. Throughout those five weeks, even though some have been short, we have covered a significant amount of content. The students have dealt with both theoretical probability and experimental probability. They have dealt with the concepts of flipping a coin and rolling of the dice through both worksheets and games/activities. To introduce the idea of probability to the students I gave each student a package of skittles and asked some simple probability questions to get them interested in the concept. Recently, we have talked about independent and dependent events. As we are finishing up the unit the students will be required to take a 10 question test on what they have learned. Dan Trahan