Probability

Numeracy Legends and The Zerda Fox

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Numeracy Legends and The Zerda Fox is a memory challenge and probability evaluation game. In the game there are multiple uncertainty factors, accompanied by action and route options, building up thousands of probability combinations.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Content Area:

Math

Play Time:

20 min.

Very Improbable Story, A

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Ethan wakes up one morning to find a very strange cat stuck on his head. The cat, Odds, refuses to budge until Ethan wins a game of probability. Without looking, Ethan must pick out a dime from his coin collection or two matching socks from his dresser, or do something else improbable. If he doesn't, Odds is there to stay, and Ethan has a 100% chance of missing his big soccer game.

Machi Koro

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Welcome to the city of Machi Koro. You've just been elected Mayor. Congrats! Unfortunately the citizens have some pretty big demands: jobs, a theme park, a couple of cheese factories and maybe even a radio tower.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Content Area:

Other

Play Time:

30 min.

Qwixx

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Qwixx is a quick-playing dice game in which everyone participates, no matter whose turn it is. Each player has a scoresheet with the numbers 2-12 in rows of red and yellow and the numbers 12-2 in rows of green and blue.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Content Area:

Math

Library

Play Time:

15 min.

Roll for It!

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Roll For It! is a casual, family-friendly dice and card game. Each player starts the game with six dice of a single color, and three target cards are laid face-up on the table.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Content Area:

Math

Special Education

Play Time:

15 min.

Can't Stop

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In this Sid Sackson classic, players must press their luck with dice and choose combinations tactically to close out three columns.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Content Area:

Math

Play Time:

25 min.

Formula D

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Formula D is a high stakes Formula One type racing game where the players race simulated cars with the hope of crossing the finish line first. This is a re-release of Formula Dé with several changes from the original format.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Content Area:

Math

Play Time:

60 min.

Plucky Pilots

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According to an old legend about the volcanic island Habanabi, there lies deep beneath the sea a shipwreck full of gold. The time has come, it seems, for the sea to give away its bounty as suddenly, gold coins are washed all over the shore!

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Content Area:

Math

Special Education

Play Time:

15 min.

Probability, Part 2: Probability Complement and Tree Diagrams (2003)

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--calculating the complement of an event (the probability of the event not occurring)
--the changing probabilities of each of three events occurring in a small number trial experiment without replacement
--representing all possible outcomes from multiple events with a tree diagram

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:15

Probability, Part 2: Probability Complement and Tree Diagrams

Probability, Part 1: Experiment, Theory and Odds (2003)

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--expressing a probability between certainty and impossible as the likelihood of an uncertain event occurring
--conducting and recording probability experiments using small and large number trials with replacement
--calculating the theoretical probability of a particular event occurring
--expressing probabilities as odds

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:13

Probability, Part 1: Experiment, Theory and Odds

Probability

Probability, Part 2: Probability Complement and Tree Diagrams (2003)

Probability, Part 1: Experiment, Theory and Odds (2003)

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