Turn “prove it with math” into a habit! This printable Would You Rather? set gets students finding probability in real-world mini-scenarios.

14 “Would You Rather?” prompts focused on probability. For each prompt, students must analyze both options, make a choice, and justify it with calculations and reasoning—perfect for math talks, quick writes, and partner debate.

Skills Students Practice kills practiced

• Theoretical probability of simple events (coin, die, spinner, card, random number)
• Simple and Compound events: “at least,” “exactly,” independent events, with/without replacement
• Converting between fractions, decimals, and percents
• Communicating mathematical reasoning
  

Perfect For

• Warm-ups & bell ringers
• Stations / centers & small-group discussion
• Spiral review & mixed practice
• Sub plans & early finishers
• Formative assessment

Grade Levels: 7–9 , also great review for Algebra 1 warm-ups

File Type: PDF (printable; easy to use digitally with any annotation tool)

Teacher Prep: Print & go.

Standards Alignment (CCSS-aligned skills)

• 7.SP.C.5–8: Probability of chance events; develop, use, and evaluate probability models; compound events.
• HSS-CP.A.1 — Describe events as subsets of a sample space; use unions/intersections/complements.
  Examples: “at least one 6,” sums on two dice, complements.
• HSS-CP.A.2–3 — Understand/identify independence and conditional probability.
  Examples: independent coin/die trials; without-replacement marble draws.
• HSS-CP.B.6 — Multiplication rule for independent events, P(A∩B)=P(A)P(B)P(A\cap B)=P(A)P(B)P(A∩B)=P(A)P(B).
  Examples: two heads; two specific dice outcomes.
• HSS-CP.B.7 — Addition rule, P(A∪B)=P(A)+P(B)−P(A∩B)P(A\cup B)=P(A)+P(B)-P(A\cap B)P(A∪B)=P(A)+P(B)−P(A∩B).
  Examples: “win on red or blue,” or “sum is 7 or 11” style comparisons.
• HSS-CP.B.8 — Apply probability rules in uniform models.
  Examples: fair dice, coins, spinners, random letters/numbers.