Learning Goal
Understand that the probability of a chance event is a number between 0 and 1
Teacher tools for this standard
Lesson Plan · Guided Notes · Exit Ticket · Re-teach · Homework
Teacher tools for this standard
Lesson Plan · Guided Notes · Exit Ticket · Re-teach · Homework
- Lesson Plan →Objectives, pacing and practice, built from this lesson's brief.
- Guided Notes →One page your students fill in and keep.
- Exit Ticket →Three items at the end of class. No student accounts.
- Re-teach →After an exit ticket: who missed what, and what to do tomorrow.
- Homework →Assign practice; it grades itself.
7.SP.C.5 -- Understand that the probability of a chance event is a number between 0 and 1 that expresses the likelihood of the event occurring. Larger numbers indicate greater likelihood. A probability near 0 indicates an unlikely event, a probability around 1/2 indicates an event that is neither unlikely nor likely, and a probability near 1 indicates a likely event.
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7.SP.C.5 -- Understand that the probability of a chance event is a number between 0 and 1 that expresses the likelihood of the event occurring. Larger numbers indicate greater likelihood. A probability near 0 indicates an unlikely event, a probability around 1/2 indicates an event that is neither unlikely nor likely, and a probability near 1 indicates a likely event.
What you'll learn
- Define probability as a measure of how likely an event is to occur
- Express probability as a number between 0 and 1 (or 0% and 100%)
- Interpret probability values: 0 = impossible, near 0 = unlikely, 1/2 = equally likely and unlikely, near 1 = likely, 1 = certain
- Place events on a probability number line according to their estimated likelihood
- Distinguish between impossible, unlikely, equally likely/unlikely, likely, and certain events
- Explain why a probability cannot be less than 0 or greater than 1
Slides
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Probability as a number
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