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=Miss Shah's Showcase on Probability: What are the chances?=

To learn about probability and fairness, students participate in several chance activities and examine a few games for fairness. Student groups become game designers who are asked to design a fair game for a toy company describing the rules for play and explaining mathematically why the game is fair. Finally, groups present their game to a fictional toy company’s board of directors convincing them to sell their game.
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Essential Question: ~Is life fair?
 * Curriculum-Framing Questions**

Unit Questions: ~Explain how to determine the likelihood of everyday events. ~How are ratios, proportions, and percents related? ~Where do you see ratios, proportions, and percents in everyday life? (i.e., batting averages, size versus cost, commissions and discounts)

Content Questions: ~A student converts 10 million people/state to 50 million people/city. Use dimensional analysis to explain why the student’s result is not reasonable. ~A student is chosen at random from a class of 10 boys and 15 girls. What are the odds in favor of a boy being chosen? ~What is probability? ~How do you measure the likelihood of an event? ~How do you determine and represent probable outcomes? ~What is the difference between experimental and theoretical probability?

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