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- AIM : Students will design a real life game model and do probability analysis on the outcomes of playing their game.
- ⓐ ⓜ : Students will use their applied mathematics skills to model the theoretical and experimental probability outcomes. They will also determine if their game is fair by calculating expected value.
- ⓐ: Students will use their artistic and creative design skills to build a real life model of the game.
Teacher Notes
Teacher Notes
◽ Encourage students to be creative, however warn them that creative does not mean complicated! (Some probabilities of winning/losing were almost impossible to calculate!)
◽ You may have to get permission from administration to run a "Carnival" or "Casino" style day. We used bingo chips and students were able to 'buy' extra credit (0.5 points max) on the test for every 10 bingo chips they had at the end of the carnival day.
◽ This project takes the longest and requires a lot of in class discussion. To support this, I do an entire unit as a flipped model (backwards).
◽Some games fell a part by the end of Carnival so remind students that the model has to be sustainable after many trials.
This project was adapted for an Algebra II/Trigonometry class from the following source:
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