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MD Health Education Learning Outcomes

Standard 5.0 Knowledge of Probability

Students will use experimental methods or theoretical reasoning to determine probabilities to make 

predictions or solve problems about events whose outcomes involve random variation.

TOPIC

A. SAMPLE SPACE


INDICATOR

·         1. Identify possible outcomes


OBJECTIVE


a. Determine possible outcomes of independent events


  CLARIFICATION

 

  THINKING SKILLS


SAMPLE ASSESSMENT  


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Assessment limit: Use two independent events with no more than 4 outcomes each and an 


organized list or tree diagram

TOPIC

B. THEORETICAL PROBABILITY


INDICATOR

·         

1. Determine the probability of one simple event comprised of equally likely outcomes


OBJECTIVE


a. Make predictions and express the probability as a fraction

CLARIFICATION

 

SAMPLE ASSESSMENTS

 

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PDF


Assessment limit: Use a sample space of no more than 20 outcomes