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Directable Fire!!
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Students run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos.
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Ball and Urn Experiment
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Simulates drawing balls from an urn, with or without replacement. Specify number of balls, number of red balls, and number drawn. Requires a MathPlayer plugin (free).
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Hamlet Happens
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Verify that rare events happen by drawing letters from a box.
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Ball-Mixing Activity: 4 Balls ...
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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We have 4 balls--2 reds and 2 greens. We drop them randomly into 2 boxes.
Are the colors mixed or separate? Use this applet to experiment.
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Fire!!
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Students run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos.
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Poisson Experiment
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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This applet allows the user to fix a rate and time interval for a Poisson process (counting the number of occurrences in a fixed time interval). Experimental and theoretical results, including expecte...
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Spinners
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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This virtual manipulative can be used to teach about chance and random choices. you. You may: spin the spinner; name areas of the spinner; change the colors used
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Coin Toss
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Explore probability concepts by simulating repeated coin tosses.
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Mathematica and the Birthday P...
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
Mathematica |
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This explains how to use Mathematica to do Monte Carlo simulations of the Birthday Probability problem. (If there are N people in a room, what is the probability that two of them share a birthday?)
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Biased Rectangles?
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
Fathom |
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Students explore one example of how bias affects the mean. This simulation increases students' understanding of the significance of sample size on the calculation of the mean.
Exploring t...
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Coin Toss
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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This activity allows the user to explore experimental probabilities by simulating a coin toss. View coin tosses as a list, table, or ratio, and choose whether to view results cumulatively.
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Triangle Experiment
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Simulates the probability that a stick broken into three pieces at random forms a triangle. Fairly sophisticated display (and discussion). Requires a MathPlayer plugin (free).
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Coin Toss
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Simulation of a coin toss allowing the user to input the number of flips, thereby exploring experimental and theoretical probabilities. Toss results can be viewed as a list of individual outcomes, rat...
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Roulette Experiment
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Simulates rolling a roulette wheel. Types of bets are limited, but you can roll multiple times. Requires a MathPlayer plugin (free).
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A Better Fire!
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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See the chaos theory played out in forest fire simulations.
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Box Model
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Using this virtual manipulative you may: add data points to the draw box; simulate random draws from a box; compare actual draws with probability
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The Birthday Problem
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Simulation of the probability of a group of size n having all different birthdays.
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Chocolate Chip Simulation
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Simulate random placement of any number of chocolate chips on 100 cookies.
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Plinko: Probability from a TV ...
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
JavaScript |
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This tool simulates Plinko, from "The Price Is Right." Three different applets are included, for single-game through multiple game explorations. Calculator programs for TI-83 and TI-89 are also incl...
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Coupon Collector Problem
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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Simulates drawing from a fixed set, with replacement, until all items of the set are drawn (also known as "cereal box problem"). User may choose from 6-sided die, 42 Mahjong tiles, or 52 playing card...
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Replacement and Probability
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
Java Applet |
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Extends the notion of conditional probability by discussing the effects of replacement on drawing multiple objects.
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Central Limit Theorem Activity
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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This activity represents a very general demonstration of the effects of the Central Limit Theorem (CLT). The activity is based on the SOCR Sampling Distribution CLT Experiment and provides the capabil...
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Random Number Generation
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
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This activity describes the need, the general methods and the SOCR utilities for random number generation and simulation. SOCR Modeler allows interactive sampling from any SOCR Distribution. The simu...
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Exploring the Birthday Paradox...
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
TI Calculator |
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This lesson plan presents an activity which demonstrates the birthday paradox, using it as a springboard into a unit on probability. Explanation on the difficulty with probability; Use of the TI-83 gr...
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Exploring Mathematics with the...
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Simulating Experiments (Probability & Statistics) |
TI-83/TI-84 |
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This book includes activities that ask students to predict the results of the planned simulation. Students will carry out numerous trials of the simulation using the Probability Simulation Applicat...
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