Resources and materials for courses developed through
the Partnership for Excellence project
Resources and materials
for courses developed through
the Partnership for Excellence project
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Rediscovering Probability |
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Cooperative Group Activities
Unit 1: Sets and Counting
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Counting Unions
Activity 2: The Fundamental Counting Principle
Activity 3: Recursion and Counting Permutations
Activity 4: Recursion and Counting Combinations
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 2: Fundamentals of Probability
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Computing and Approximating Probabilities
Activity 2: Probabilities of Unions and Complements of Events
Activity 3: Independence of Events
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 3: A Discrete Probability Distribution: The Binomial
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Binomial Probability Experiments
Activity 2: Applications of the Binomial Probability Distribution
Activity 3: Automating the Calculation Process
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 4: A Continuous Probability Distribution: The Normal Curve
Objectives
Activity 1: Linear Errors Due to Chance
Activity 2: The Normal Curve
Activity 3: Cotton Balls Revisited
File containing all unit activities
