Probability

The Common Core Standards prompt students to investigate chance processes and develop, use, and evaluate probability models in Grade 7. This Pondering Probability post and Sample Assessment post give a quick overview of the content. The most commonly used probability models include a coin or dice toss, spinners, drawing marbles or cards, and the random number generator (or another random number generator). Decide Now! is my favorite app for creating spinners...we use it for deciding our after-church restaurant each week.

Decide Now! App

There are lots of options for teaching probability...organizing a series of stations that include different probability-based games would be a fun way to introduce this unit. And probability allows integration of other concepts such as integer operations, area of geometric figures, and so much more! Notice the attached resources begin with the Twister Lab Activity and continue using the same problem to work from likelihood all the way to probability models of compound events.

7.SP.C.5-8 Resources

These activities highlight Common Core State Standards 7.SP.C.5, 7.SP.C.6, 7.SP.C.7, and 7.SP.C.8 included in MATH-7 and Accelerated MATH-7.