Probability and Plinko Lesson Plan

Curriculum content: This activity reinforces students’ ability to identify pattern, in particular, Pascal’s Triangle. The basic rules of probability will be addressed, with the opportunity to explore AND/OR rules, depending on the abilities of the students.

By the end of this activity students will be able to: • Identify Pascal’s triangle • determine simple probabilities • use some rules of probability • tabulate data in a spreadsheet • create a histogram using a spreadsheet