Showing posts with label Probability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Probability. Show all posts
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Probability Activities and Games for Elementary Students
St. Patrick's Day is such a fun holiday! I wanted to share an EASY and fun probability activity and game that you can not only do in March, but any time of year to introduce or reinforce probability.
Hands On Probability Activities
for Elementary Students
First, I go and purchase the Welch's Fruit Snacks (not sponsored). You can buy these from Target, Walmart, Kroger, Amazon ~really any store. You do not need these specific snacks. You can use this with Skittles, M & M's and any other snack, but I have found it works best with these because of the shapes and the amount per bag. I have used it with other snacks, but love the shape of these and they are not as sticky as other snacks.
Probability Activity Sheets
Next, you'll want to print off your sheets. You can make a packet or print and hand out a page at a time. It really depends how much time you will have to complete. The students will predict before they open on how many are in the bag. Then the activity walks them through the process of making a tally chart, bar graph, and spinner for the data. I usually make a packet for the students and just make sure no one turns the page before instructed.
The directions are super EASY to follow. It leads you step by step to complete the questions, graphs, and charts. The hardest part for the students is not eating them!
Probability Activity Video
Check out this preview of the Probability Activity using snacks! Students love being able to guess and then of course eat their data, but they are having fun while learning. The probability activity has very user friendly language students will understand and be able to follow.
Probability Digital Escape Room
If you don't have time or aren't fully teaching probability yet, you can use this Digital Escape Room to introduce the concept to students or reinforce it. It can be used for St. Patrick's Day, but really you could use any time of the year. Students love that they are being independent in this digital probability activity, but also completing each level for the clues.
I found these FREE Probability Exit Tickets you could use once you have completed your unit. I would love to see pictures of your students using their snacks to learn about probability.
I hope you have a great time doing this fun and hands on activity! I would love to hear feedback or see any pictures. Enjoy!
Sunday, February 27, 2022
St. Patrick's Day Math Games and Digital Escape Room Fun!
It's March! Well....... it's so close that at this point I am going to put February behind me. I am moving on to warmer temperatures, (although where I live they aren't too warm in the Midwest) and a celebration that puts a smile on my face ~ St. Patrick's Day! I am highlighting some fun St. Patrick's Day Math Games and a Digital Escape Room.
So no one loves the pinching tradition, but they love the excitement of the gold, that sneaky leprechaun and let's face it any holiday that is supposed to give you LUCK is a winner for me! For any special holiday or celebration, I am wanting something easy, fun, and engaging for my students, BUT I want them to be learning at the same time. I've pulled together a few of my favorites that are some digital St. Patrick's Day math games and a digital escape room.
For some easy, no prep digital St. Patrick's Day fun, try this digital escape room below. It has different skills your students can be reviewing such as inferences, homophones, contractions, and synonyms while they are trying to find their lost invitation to Lucky the Leprechaun's party. Haven't done an escape room before? Read below for how I set mine up and most typical digital escape rooms.
What is a digital escape room?
A digital escape room is an online game that begins with a theme or scenario. Students generally work collaboratively in groups of 2 or 3 in order to escape/breakout/solve the mystery. They are challenged to solve puzzles in order to find clues and codes. This breakout has 5 codes to break. Escape rooms are fun and engaging for students and they LOVE them!
Check out the video preview of the St. Patrick's Day Escape Room.
St. Patrick's Day Digital Math Mysteries
Digital Math Mysteries are a fun and engaging activity where students begin reading or listening to the story, solve the word problems, and click on the correct answer. If the correct answer is chosen, the story continues. If a wrong answer is chosen, a 'stopper' will tell them to go back to where they were working, and TRY AGAIN!
Check out each of the grade levels below. I have these in paper format in my store.
Check out these other resources for St. Patrick's Day Fun!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
End of the Year - Probability?
On Fridays we like to do some fun activities . . . so we did 'Good Luck Goodies' to help us with our probability skills! Here are some pics to show you how it went.
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| Making predictions before we open our goodies! |
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| We carefully cut the bag open . . . we will use the bag again later! |
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| We pour out our goodies to see if our predictions were correct. Then, we sort, tally, and total them. |
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| Then we graph our goodies. |
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| We practice using the language of chance. |
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| We put our goodies back into the bags. We shake the bags up and down and all around, then pull out 1 goody. We tally our results to see which one we pull out the most often. |
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| We even had some major spinner action going on! 100 spins! (Don't worry, we didn't do all of these activities in one day!) |
{Like fruit snacks are so healthy!}
Anyway . . . If you would like to spice up your end of the year probability unit, you can check mine out! You know the drill . . . Just click the {pic}!
Friday, November 25, 2011
Have You Heard? Cyber Monday Sale on TpT!
I am also thankful for my readers and followers. Did you go out for Black Friday? I just didn't have it in me. I was pretty pooped! I guess I will just wait for Cyber Monday!
Speaking of Cyber Monday...
Cyber Monday has come to TpT! I have recently been spending some time on TpT looking at some of the items that other teachers have on there...and there is really some GREAT stuff! Most of the stores at TpT will be having a sale on Monday (I am going to offer 20% off on Monday and Tuesday) and TpT is offering an extra 10% off! The reason I'm going on into Monday is because TpT said that if there are hitches in the computers, they will extend the extra 10% to Tuesday!
Here are a few of the items that I will have on sale. (EVERYTHING is on SALE though!) Just click the pic to take you to the items!
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| This Reading Record and Response Book is a great resource to help your kids keep track of their reading and respond to it. This packet normally sells for $9.99. With the 20% + 10% extra off... it will only cost you $6.99! |
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| This packet is great to get your kids looking for words of all 'sorts' in their very own books! Have them looking for nouns, verbs, contractions, even onomatopoeia! This packets is normally $5.99 and with the discount it will only cost you $4.19!
When you get ready to check out, just remember to enter CMS28 for the code! Happy Cyber Monday Sale!
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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