Probability Unit Plan

Conditional Probability

Achievement Indicators:

1.6 Solve a contextual problem that involves odds or probability.

2.4 Solve a contextual problem that involves the probability of mutually exclusive or non–mutually exclusive events.

3.1 Compare, using examples, dependent and independent events.
3.2 Determine the probability of an event, given the occurrence of a previous event.
3.3 Determine the probability of two dependent or two independent events.
3.4 Create and solve a contextual problem that involves determining the probability of dependent or independent events.


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Lesson Links:

  • Click here for ERLC Lesson Link. Please use this lesson as a framework for your own teaching environment
  • Click here for a pdf version of the same ERLC Lesson Link.

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Videos:

Conditional Probability -- (Youtube)

Calculating Probability - " And " statements, Dependent -- (Youtube)


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Additional Resources to Support this Lesson

http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol6/dependent_events.html

http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/probability-events-conditional.html

http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/ALGEBRA/APR6/Lindep.htm

http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/dependent-events.html