Independent and Dependent Events Lesson Plans and Lesson Ideas

Independent and Dependent Events

You’ve just flipped a quarter 10 heads in a row. What are the chances that the next coin toss will be heads? Check out this BrainPOP movie to find out the answer! In it, Tim and Moby will explain how to calculate the probabilities for independent events, like a coin toss. After that, you’ll learn how to figure out the odds that two or more independent events will happen. You’ll need to know how to multiply fractions and convert them into percentages to do it right. Finally, Tim demonstrates how to solve for dependent events, where the probabilities are all linked up! We think it’s more than probable that you’ll like this movie!

Probability and Data Analysis Lesson Plan: What Are the Chances?

In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-12, students review probability and data analysis skills learned throughout a unit of study. Students then create a paper-based or digital activity that challenges classmates to apply data analysis, graphing, and/or probability skills to fictitious or real-world situations. See more »

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Independent and Dependent Events Common Core State Standards Alignments

Grade: 07

CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.6

Approximate the probability of a chance event by collecting data on the chance process that produces it and observing its long-run relative frequency, and predict the approximate relative frequency given the probability. For example, when rolling a number cube 600 times, predict that a 3 or 6 would be rolled roughly 200 times, but probably not exactly 200 times.

Grade: 07

CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.7a

Develop a uniform probability model by assigning equal probability to all outcomes, and use the model to determine probabilities of events. For example, if a student is selected at random from a class, find the probability that Jane will be selected and the probability that a girl will be selected.

Grade: 07

CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.7b

Develop a probability model (which may not be uniform) by observing frequencies in data generated from a chance process. For example, find the approximate probability that a spinning penny will land heads up or that a tossed paper cup will land open-end down. Do the outcomes for the spinning penny appear to be equally likely based on the observed frequencies?

Grade: 07

CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.7a

Grade: 07

CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.8

Find probabilities of compound events using organized lists, tables, tree diagrams, and simulation.

Grade: 07

CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.7

Develop a probability model and use it to find probabilities of events. Compare probabilities from a model to observed frequencies; if the agreement is not good, explain possible sources of the discrepancy.

Grade: 07

CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.8a

Understand that, just as with simple events, the probability of a compound event is the fraction of outcomes in the sample space for which the compound event occurs.

Grade: 07

CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.8b

Represent sample spaces for compound events using methods such as organized lists, tables and tree diagrams. For an event described in everyday language (e.g., “rolling double sixes”), identify the outcomes in the sample space which compose the event.

Grade: 09, 10, 11, 12

CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.A.2

Understand that two events A and B are independent if the probability of A and B occurring together is the product of their probabilities, and use this characterization to determine if they are independent.

Grade: 09, 10, 11, 12

CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.A.3

Understand the conditional probability of A given B as P(A and B)/P(B), and interpret independence of A and B as saying that the conditional probability of A given B is the same as the probability of A, and the conditional probability of B given A is the same as the probability of B.

Grade: 09, 10, 11, 12

CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.A.5

Recognize and explain the concepts of conditional probability and independence in everyday language and everyday situations. For example, compare the chance of having lung cancer if you are a smoker with the chance of being a smoker if you have lung cancer.

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