Looking for interactive, differentiated activities to help students strengthen their understanding of probability and statistics? This versatile resource offers engaging practice with calculating probabilities, working with tables and trees, and exploring measures of central tendency.

You’ll get ready-to-print task cards and student-friendly self-assessment checkpoints, plus a guide with over 10 creative ways to use them - perfect for warm-ups, review, games, or collaborative group work.

What’s Included:
✔ 4 checkpoints (one per topic), each with 3 differentiated tasks plus space for student reflection and self-assessment
✔ 4 sets of task cards (3 tasks each), designed for small groups, stations, or vertical surfaces
✔ 1-page guide with 10+ classroom use ideas (warm-ups, review, games, collaborative activities)
✔ Step-by-step answer keys
✔ Editable files (.docx and .pdf) for easy customization
✔ Tasks labeled with key mathematical competencies (understanding, communicating, reasoning, connecting)

Topics Covered:

• Calculating probabilities using tables and tree diagrams
• Calculating probabilities of independent events using multiplication
• Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, range)
• Choosing the best measure of central tendency for a data set
  

This resource is perfect for middle school or high school math classrooms and is designed to help students build confidence in probability and statistics while keeping lessons engaging and adaptable.

If you are interested in more resources on this topic, check out my entire unit bundle on probability and data for Math 8 in British Columbia, Canada

Links to other BC Math 8 resources:

• Entire B.C. Math 8 curriculum (9 units)
• Unit 1: Proportional Reasoning
• Unit 2: Fractions
• Unit 3: Algebra and Solving Linear Equations
• Unit 4: Linear Relations and Representing Patterns
• Unit 5: The Pythagorean Theorem
• Unit 6: Surface Area
• Unit 7: Volume
• Unit 8: Percents and Financial Literacy
• Unit 9: Probability and Data
• Spiral Review for the entire BC Math 8 course

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Please note that this resource is for use by one teacher only. Colleagues must purchase additional licenses. You may not upload this resource to the internet in any form unless it is password protected for your individual class.