One project that a fellow teacher introduced me to is a Carnival Project. Basically, the students come up with their own carnival game, make it, then perform analyses on it. It started a lot of very good conversations about probability (conditional, independent, so on and so forth...).
Here is the description of the project. You can download a copy for free on this website.
Carnival Game Project
I also made rubrics for each of the three sections. I will have to post this later since I don't have them at the moment. Stay tuned!
**Update 1/15**
Here are the rubrics for the project. Each of the three sections had a different rubric.
Proposal Rubric
Working Model Rubric
Report Rubric
Here are some of the amazing things that the students came up with. We had two days where the teams "presented" their games and everyone played them. If you can, invite other classes and teachers to come and enjoy the games as well. The students love to eat, and almost all of them brought candy prizes without prompting. Let's just say, I consumed too many calories those days! Too fun!
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| Galton Board (very interesting) |
Happy teaching probability!
