There's a Large Probability You'll Love This!

Hello! I am so excited to share the activity that made probability fun to learn! Believe it or not, this activity makes probability easier to visualize. The objective of this activity is for one to see how probability is determined, the difference between experimental and theoretical probability, and mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events. The activity has you take a bag of different colored goldfish and separate the green fish which represents sick fish from the colored fish which are healthy fish. Then, you total up the number of "healthy" fish you have and the number of "sick" fish you have. After counting your fish, then you get to the fun probability part! The activity asks you to find:

• The probability that a fish in your sample is healthy.
• The probability that a fish in your sample is sick.
• The probability of not getting a healthy fish.
• The probability of not getting a sick fish. 

The reason I found this activity so helpful and I was so eager to share it is because it is such a great way to visually see how probability is determined and engages learner’s minds. I also, learned the difference between experimental and theoretical probability. Everyone would've had the same amount of healthy and sick fish theoretically but, this activity was experimental because everyone didn't have the same amount of sick and healthy fish in their bag. Lastly, we were able to learn about mutually exclusive events and non-mutually exclusive events. This event was mutually exclusive because there was only one outcome per turn, a fish couldn't be healthy and sick at the same time. Overall, I think this is a great activity to help people understand probability and gives others an opportunity to discuss more probability vocabulary throughout the assignment. To continue my search on how to practice probability, the "fun way", I came across this website that had some interactive games I think are very helpful, click here to check them out!