SHAKER HIGH SCHOOL

 

Model Lesson/ Best Practices to Share

Intro to Probability Ð The Monty Hall Problem

 

Subject

IRP I

Grades

9

 

 

NY State Standards

A.S.20  Calculate the probability of an event and its complement.

A.S.22  Determine, based on calculated probability of a set of events, if: some are equally likely to occur, one is more likely to occur than the other.

 

 

Instructional Focus

As a unit opener: introduce the notions of chance and probability and spark students curiosity with this paradoxical problem

 

 

Performance Task
  1. Have students use the interactive computer model to select doors in the classic Monty Hall.   Probabilities will display.
  2. Have students understand the concept of simple probability.

 

 

Scoring Guide

 

 

 

Essential Skills

Using simple probabilities calculate percents from fractions..

 

 

Pictures, Tables, Graphs, Videos, Websites, Attachments, Etc.

From NCCS teacher resource page:

The website:

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/monty3/index.html

 

then generalize with:

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/monty/index.html