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This is a project that follows the PBL framework and was used to help students master the fundamentals of probability, specifically the laws of probability. Note that the project was designed and delivered per the North Carolina Math 2 curriculum and it can be customized to meet your own specific curriculum needs and resources.

This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: Understand conditional probability; represent events as a subset of a sample space using tables and tree diagrams; and communicate their reasoning clearly.

In this module, students build on their understanding of probability developed in previous grades.  In Topic A the multiplication rule for independent events introduced in Algebra II is generalized to a rule that can be used to calculate probability where two events are not independent.  Students are also introduced to three techniques for counting outcomes.  Topic B presents information related to random variables and discrete probability distributions.  Topic C is a capstone topic for this module, where students use what they have learned about probability and expected value to analyze strategies and make decisions in a variety of contexts.

(Nota: Esta es una traducción de un recurso educativo abierto creado por el Departamento de Educación del Estado de Nueva York (NYSED) como parte del proyecto "EngageNY" en 2013. Aunque el recurso real fue traducido por personas, la siguiente descripción se tradujo del inglés original usando Google Translate para ayudar a los usuarios potenciales a decidir si se adapta a sus necesidades y puede contener errores gramaticales o lingüísticos. La descripción original en inglés también se proporciona a continuación.)

En este módulo, los estudiantes se basan en su comprensión de la probabilidad desarrollada en calificaciones anteriores. En el tema A, la regla de multiplicación para eventos independientes introducidos en el álgebra II se generaliza a una regla que puede usarse para calcular la probabilidad donde dos eventos no son independientes. Los estudiantes también se introducen a tres técnicas para contar los resultados. El tema B presenta información relacionada con variables aleatorias y distribuciones de probabilidad discretas. El Tema C es un tema Capstone para este módulo, donde los estudiantes usan lo que han aprendido sobre la probabilidad y el valor esperado para analizar estrategias y tomar decisiones en una variedad de contextos.

English Description:
In this module, students build on their understanding of probability developed in previous grades.  In Topic A the multiplication rule for independent events introduced in Algebra II is generalized to a rule that can be used to calculate probability where two events are not independent.  Students are also introduced to three techniques for counting outcomes.  Topic B presents information related to random variables and discrete probability distributions.  Topic C is a capstone topic for this module, where students use what they have learned about probability and expected value to analyze strategies and make decisions in a variety of contexts.

The purpose of this task is to have students compute and interpret an expected value, and then use the information provided by the expected value to make a decision. The task is designed to encourage students to communicate their findings in a non-technical form in context.