Probability games

I love using probability games, experiments, read-alouds, sorts, and other activities to make a probability unit hands-on and engaging for 4th and 5th grade students. Click through to see my favorite low-prep probability activities to incorporate in your elementary math workshop. Supports Virginia SOL 4.13

We finished our probability unit this week! I posted last week about some of the things we have been doing during our probability unit so I will recap those and tell you about how we finished off! We began by reading Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs which is a great book for introducing probability […]

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Looking for some fun ways to teach probability? Check out this collection of 9 engaging probability games and activities that are perfect for any unit on data analysis and probability.

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Rock... paper... scissors! Discover a bit more about the math behind this childhood game with this exercise in probability.

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Looking for a fun way to teach probability? You're in luck! The Leprechaun Luck Game is a freebie that allows kids to explore probability in an exciting game of chance. In order to win, your students will need a bit of luck, but they'll also discover that there's more than luck involved in winning.

Defy the Pig is a fun dice game that can be a great warm-up activity to math probability lesson plans.

Teaching Media Literacy and probability too! Design a board game for the back of a cereal box.

Being able to guess the likelihood of an event is a useful skill. Discuss probability with your kid as you play this fun math card game!

Click here to download a FREE PDF version of this game to file away for later! SKUNK is a classroom classic – it involves risk, reward, and math that teaches concepts like probability and chance. O…

My kids love to play this fun game! The game of SKUNK, that is!

Teaching probability is a fantastic way to introduce middle school students to the concept of chance and randomness, providing them with tools to analyze and understand real-world situations. Using hands-on examples like cards, dice, spinners, and coins, probability can become an engaging and memorable part of any math curriculum. Here’s how to break down probability concepts—like simple probability, sample space, tree diagrams, and independent events—while making it fun with examples that…

This step-by-step guide to probability tree diagrams will show you how to read and make tree diagrams to calculate the probability of dependent and independent events. Several examples and a video tutorial are included.

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This fun game allows students to earn tokens to the fair by demonstrating their understanding of probability. Once inside the fair, students can play a range of different probability games.

Last week, we spent a few days working on probability in our math unit. My kiddos are heavy into basketball season right now, so we began by shooting a few hoops {in the classroom}. We used a basketball and a hula hoop. The kids decided their position in the classroom, and then the class made statements about the probability of each student making the shot. Just in case basketball did not get their attention…next up…FOOD! {Food always works in a pinch…especially when it’s candy!} :) I gave…

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