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This is the best Middle School Probability outdoor exercise EVER!
1 coin per student.
In the schoolyard, students move back and forward with the flip of a coin. Must be a good flip. This exercise works best with a grid drawn on the schoolyard in chalk, perhaps. (See pic below) If possible film the exercise from above.
Now here are lots of people doing this 2D random Walk on Wall St. The results are totally amazing.
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Watch for the Bell Curve. It’s AWESOME.
This video was made by The National Museum of Mathematics NY.
Check out their Squared wheeled bike here.
Mathspig has become obsessed with the Galton Board since watching ELEVEN dropping discs into the peg board on STRANGER THINGS 4.
Now thanks to David Butler, University of Adelaide, you can turn your middle school class into Galton Balls. You can find 100 randomly generated instruction sheets for each human Galton Ball at David’s website. (Link above)
Ideally, you would have 3,000 students to do this activity. But the class exercise ends with something approximating a Normal Distribution or Bell Curve constructed from video tap casettes. And the NOrMal Distribution is spooky.
More on the Galton Board Math here.
PDF file: 1. Crazy math maze work sheet 1 UK
PDF file: 2. Crazy math maze work sheet 2 UK
PDF file: 3. Crazy math maze work sheet ANS UK
PDF file: Crazy math maze work sheet 1 USA
PDF file: Crazy math maze work sheet 2 USA
PDF File: Crazy math maze work sheet ANS USA
This is the best Middle School Probability outdoor exercise EVER!
1 coin per student.
In the schoolyard, students move back and forward with the flip of a coin. Must be a good flip. This exercise works best with a grid drawn on the schoolyard in chalk, perhaps. (See pic below) If possible film the exercise from above.
Now here are lots of people doing this 2D random Walk on Wall St. The results are totally amazing.
…………………………………………………………
Watch for the Bell Curve. It’s AWESOME.
This video was made by The National Museum of Mathematics NY.
Check out their Squared wheeled bike here.
1. How many bristles in a toothbrush?
2. What % of Oxygen in the atmosphere comes from forests?
3. How loud was the loudest recorded human scream?
4. How many apples could kill an average-sized adult?
5. How many countries in Africa?
6. What happens when you Google this number, 241543903?
7. How many vertebrae in a giraffe’s neck?
8. What is the highest recorded wind speed?
9. What is the world record high-jump height for a guinea pig?
10. How many times does England fit into Australia?
11. How much did the most expensive dessert ever cost?
14. How many burgers does McDonalds sell a second worldwide?
16. How many times was the most frequently married person in the world, married?
17. Why is Zero Zero Zero like 123?
18. What is the world record for the greatest number of snorts in 10 seconds?
19. How long would it take to grow your hair to your feet?
20. What number causes the greatest loss of money in the world?
1. How many bristles in a toothbrush? HERE
2. What % of Oxygen in the atmosphere comes from forests? HERE
3. 3. How loud was the loudest recorded human scream? GOOGLE IT!
4. How many apples could kill an average-sized adult? HERE
5. 5. How many countries in Africa? GOOGLE IT!
6. What happens when you Google this number: 241543903? HERE
7. How many vertebrae in a giraffe’s neck? HERE
8. What is the highest recorded wind speed? HERE and HERE
9. What is the world record high-jump height for a guinea pig? GOOGLE IT!
10. How many times does England fit into Australia? GOOGLE IT!
11. How much did the most expensive dessert ever cost? GOOGLE AGAIN.
12. Why is 70 a weird number? HERE
13. Why Google Googol? HERE
14. How many burgers does McDonalds sell a second worldwide? HERE
15. If the population of the world spread across the USA , what area would we get each?
GOOGLE THE NUMBERS!
16. How many times was the most frequently married person in the world, married?
GOOGLE HIM.
17. Why is Zero Zero Zero like 123? HERE
18. What is the world record for the greatest number of snorts in 10 seconds? HERE
19. How long would it take to grow your hair to your feet? HERE
20. 20. What number causes the greatest loss of money in the world? HERE
1. How many bristles in a toothbrush?
2. What % of Oxygen in the atmosphere comes from forests?
3. How loud was the loudest recorded human scream?
4. How many apples could kill an average-sized adult?
5. How many countries in Africa?
6. What happens when you Google this number, 241543903?
7. How many vertebrae in a giraffe’s neck
8. What is the highest recorded wind speed?
9. What is the world record high-jump height for a guinea pig?
10. How many times does England fit into Australia?
11. How much did the most expensive dessert ever cost?
14. How many burgers does McDonalds sell a second worldwide?
16. How many times was the most frequently married person in the world, married?
17. Why is Zero Zero Zero like 123?
18. What is the world record for the greatest number of snorts in 10 seconds?
19. How long would it take to grow your hair to your feet?
20. What number causes the greatest loss of money in the world?
1. How many bristles in a toothbrush? HERE
2. What % of Oxygen in the atmosphere comes from forests? HERE
3. 3. How loud was the loudest recorded human scream? GOOGLE IT!
4. How many apples could kill an average-sized adult? HERE
5. 5. How many countries in Africa? GOOGLE IT!
6. What happens when you Google this number: 241543903? HERE
7. How many vertebrae in a giraffe’s neck? HERE
8. What is the highest recorded wind speed? HERE and HERE
9. What is the world record high-jump height for a guinea pig? GOOGLE IT!
10. How many times does England fit into Australia? GOOGLE IT!
11. How much did the most expensive dessert ever cost? GOOGLE AGAIN.
12. Why is 70 a weird number? HERE
13. Why Google Googol? HERE
14. How many burgers does McDonalds sell a second worldwide? HERE
15. If the population of the world spread across the USA , what area would we get each?
GOOGLE THE NUMBERS!
16. How many times was the most frequently married person in the world, married?
GOOGLE HIM.
17. Why is Zero Zero Zero like 123? HERE
18. What is the world record for the greatest number of snorts in 10 seconds? HERE
19. How long would it take to grow your hair to your feet? HERE
20. 20. What number causes the greatest loss of money in the world? HERE
PDF file: 1. Crazy math maze work sheet 1 UK
PDF file: 2. Crazy math maze work sheet 2 UK
PDF file: 3. Crazy math maze work sheet ANS UK
PDF file: Crazy math maze work sheet 1 USA
PDF file: Crazy math maze work sheet 2 USA
PDF File: Crazy math maze work sheet ANS USA
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