Showing posts with label Venn Diagram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Venn Diagram. Show all posts

Friday, March 14, 2014

Venn Diagrams, Probability and Roulette

This is one of my favorite days during the probability unit.  It isn't often I get to gamble with my students and say its educational.

I begin this day with a quick warm up involving placing cards in the right parts of the Venn diagram.  Then, I ask them a few questions about it, just as review of the notation.




The last one I stop myself and ask the students how to even say that and inevitably someone says not A or B, to which I have to make a point.

After everyone is okay with the basic of the Venn diagram I preface the next activity with "Don't tell you parents we're playing this but does anyone recognize this game?

Then I start taking bets.  I draw two student names at random, inform them what they could bet on and place their bets.  Before I spin we have to model the situation with a Venn diagram and talk about intersections, unions, and compliments.



Here is the graphic organizer