Human vs. Machine: Unveiling Randomness with Data Visualization and Stats
Students will learn about the concept of randomness and see how human decision-making contrasts with computer-generated choices.
Posts tagged ‘Law of Large Numbers’
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Sep 15
Lesson Plan: The Egg Roulette Game
This lesson, published in August of 2017, uses a probability game and computer simulations to explore the law of large numbers, conditional events, sampling distributions, and the central limit theorem.
Feb 17
Sharing a Birthday: Technology-Supported Investigations in Middle School
Although it is clearly possible for two people to share a birthday, our experiences (and intuition) inform us that it is more likely that two people will have different birthdays. That is to say, the probability of a shared birthday between two people is close to zero. However, the chance of a shared birthday may increase if a larger group of people is considered.
