Lesson Plans and Work Sheets for Probability and Statistics


Probability Concepts

Pascal's Wager

The Birthday Problem

My letter to Marilyn vos savant regarding the Birthday Problem

Poker Hand Probabilities

Monopoly Probabilities

Pizza Project (Combinations)

Chain Letters and Pyramid Schemes

Urim and Thummim

Blood Types

Blood Types

Let's Make A Deal!

Can't Stop -- Probability Game

Six Degrees of Separation

Probability Puzzle

Combinations & Permutations

Odds that God Exists

Some Interesting Probabilities

Flipping A Coin

Using Bayes Theorem to find a missing airplane

Expected Value Problems

Set of Simplified Playing Cards

The Mathematics behind the game of SPOT IT!

Central Limit Theorem application

Pythagorean Expectation for NFL teams in 2016



Statistics Concepts

Color Distribution of M&M Plain Candies

M&M's Worksheet

Sports Data for Correlation Coefficients and Scatter Plots

Salary Data for Celebrities and Real people (2013 / 2014)

Voting: The Importance of Method

Candy Math Fun

Letter from Mars Candy Company about M&M's

1970 Draft Lottery

Super Bowl (Gathering Data)

Super Bowl Party Game (Gathering Data)

World Series Champions (Gathering Data)

NCAA Division 1 Football Champions (Gathering Data)

NCAA Basketball Tournament Champions (Gathering Data)

Odds of Picking a perfect Bracket in March Madness

List of Mass Shootings in the U.S. in 2019 (Gathering Data)

Statistical Study of the Letters of the Alphabet

SAT Scores -- z-scores

Alabama Paradox

Statistics solves the Toilet Seat Problem

Mean, Median, and Mode

A Baseball Paradox

Batting Averages

List of Deadliest American Animals

Graph of Media Bias



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