MathMUDtician

In this exercise, students will work with partners or small groups to perform a dice experiment. They roll a pair of dice a large number of times and record the results. They then compare their experimental probabilities to the theoretical probabilities. Eventually, they are asked why there is a difference and how they could remedy it. This exercise requires the teacher to have both white and colored dice.

This exercise requires the student to find simple probabilities, independent and dependent probabilities, and conditional probabilities all from sets of date presented in table form. It also requires the students to have a knowledge of finding conditional probability with an equation. It works great for individual or partner/small group practice.