Activity Name:” Healthy Fish”
What you need: Colored goldfish in a bag that will represent
either healthy or sick fish.
Once all your groups have the goldfish you than need to count
and see how many fish you have that are healthy or sick. The green ones are
sick and the other colors are healthy fish.
After counting how many fish you have, or in my classes’
case being told how many fish you have, you need to compute different kinds of
probabilities. Such as, computing “the probability that a fish in your sample
is healthy.”
When teaching and trying to understand probability it is so
much easier to actually have some kind of item, like goldfish, that you can
actually feel and move around. For me, it makes it so much less confusing!
CLICK HERE for a
great article explaining more about using goldfish for teaching probability.
CLICK HERE For
teaching younger students here is a great online game to help them better
understand probability.
Thanks for reading, and check back for more posts about different math concepts! :)
