Objective/s

(Chance and Data)

Teaching Strategies, Activities and Personal Management Notes

Resources

·     to compare data based on experiments with playing cards
Playing Cards (pre 1940)
Author: Benham, W. Gurney
Illustrator: NA
Publisher: Spring Books
Copyright (c) 1996 Zedcor Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Keywords: Playing Cards History of the Pack and Explanations of its Many Secrets The Tarot Cards Genesis of the English Pack 1750 Bamford queen, color

Activity 12

·         At this site, students will choose either a ‘red’ or ‘black’ card to be drawn from a digital pack of cards.  The hare is ‘black’, the tortoise is ‘red’.  Each player should choose 50 consecutive times.  The player with the highest number correct is the winner. Move forward on the board game accordingly (2 places for a win, 1 place for a tie).  
http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/applets/cardtest.html



 

Instructions for Students

Link to Use

Activity 12

·         At this site, you will both choose 50 coloured cards from a deck of cards.  Will more red come out or more black?  The hare is to choose ‘black’ and the tortoise chooses ‘red’.  Each player should guess 50 times (don’t change colours).  The player with the highest number out of 50 is the winner. Move forward on the board game accordingly (2 places for a win, 1 place for a tie).  
http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/applets/cardtest.html


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