Fire-Starter: Chances of getting it right
What are your chances of passing a 10-item True-False test if you randomly guess the answers? What are the odds you’d get all the questions right? John Bohannon sent in his quick and catchy way to get kids thinking about statistics and probability, across the curriculum. (He uses it when they’re working on an opinion survey in social studies.)
Check out our Resources page for a growing library of Fire-Starters — the kind of “grabber” that helps draw kids into challenging material. Send in yours, and I’ll mail you a complimentary copy of Fires in the Mind!
