Intel Education: Visual Ranking Tool: What Are the Chances?


	Visual Ranking Tool: What are the Chances? Content Standards and Objectives

Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Targeted NCTM Content Standards
Probability and Statistics Standard for Grades 3-5
In grades three through five all students should:

Understand and apply basic concepts of probability.
Describe events as likely or unlikely and discuss the degree of likelihood using such words as certain, equally likely, and impossible.
Predict the probability of outcomes of simple experiments and test the predictions.
Understand that one can measure the likelihood of an event—represented by a number from zero to one.

Problem-Solving Standard for Grades 3-5
In grades three through five instructional programs should enable all students to:

Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts.
Build new mathematical knowledge through problem-solving.
Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems.
Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem-solving.

Connections Standard for Grades 3-5
In grades three through five instructional programs should enable all students to:

Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas.
Understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole.
Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics.

Student Objectives
Students will be able to:

Make predictions about whether a given game is fair or unfair
Carry out investigations
Display data in a chart
Draw conclusions based on the data
List the mathematical possibilities for all possible outcomes
Compare the results of the investigations to the true mathematical probabilities

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