Probability Bingo

I've always loved Sarah Carter's Blog - Math = Love. I have been following her for years. She always has such great ideas!

One night, when I should have been spending time with my husband and dogs, I was working (of course) and came across her post about Probability Bingo. I absolutely loved the idea, and I had to try it!

I did this activity as an introduction to probability of independent events. I wanted the students to really think about their choices before they knew the probability. So, I showed them the dice and explained that I was going to roll them together.

Students started to fill out their bingo cards. I didn't give much instruction, so some of my kids thought that if one event was called, they got to mark all of them off. HAHA! I also didn't tell them that they had to clear the entire board to win until after they finished creating their board. :) I loved the look on their faces when I explained the rules! It was priceless.

I had some extra cubes laying around that I bought on Amazon, so I used those to write B for Blue, G for Green, and R for Red. WELL...I should not have used red and green cubes. The kids kept asking me "where is the blue cube?" UGH. After we got that cleared up, the activity was awesome!

We only had one BB. One student got mad and said I think you are rolling wrong - she took over for me! :) This also created a great moment for referring back to experimental probability. One student was even upset that we didn't mark down the frequency so that we could determine the experimental probability of our events.

I created a Google Doc with the original made by Brian Mehmed. Here is the activity: Probability Bingo.

Thanks Math = Love!

~RJ

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