Probability Unit Workplace Math 10 | Engaging, Differentiated, No Prep Needed!

Are you searching for a thorough, engaging, and differentiated unit plan for probability and odds? Then this resource is for you!

This thoughtfully constructed unit is designed to bring math to life, ensuring an enriching learning experience for your students whether you’re in the classroom, at home, or distance learning. No prep necessary - everything you need to teach the entire unit is in the package (including resources for teachers such as a pacing guide, detailed answer keys, lesson plans, and rubrics).

This unit was designed for the Math Workplace 10 course in British Columbia Canada (aligned with the redesigned BC curriculum and new reporting order in 2023). However, with editable files in both .pdf and .docx formats, you have the flexibility to customize the content to suit your students' needs and your teaching style. The preview document contains images and information about every resource included.

WHAT SETS THIS RESOURCE APART:

1. Formative Assessment Opportunities for Personalized Growth
   This unit has multiple formative assessment strategies where students can get specific feedback on their progress. There are also opportunities for students to self-assess and reflect, empowering students to become active in their learning. All questions are marked with icons indicating to students which mathematical competency they are pursuing, aiding their self-directed learning process.
2. Interactivity and Collaboration
   Each lesson comes with engaging warm-up ideas and interactive whiteboard activities, which help foster a supportive learning environment. Students will be actively involved and thinking in your classroom.
3. Differentiation
   Cater to diverse learning needs with differentiated daily practice assignments, tiered by difficulty level, allowing every student to challenge themselves and find success.
4. Real-World Connections and Project-Based Learning
   The unit includes a variety of authentic real-world applications in the warm-ups, lesson notes, activities, assignments, etc. The rich task (mini project) is a chance to foster creativity and critical thinking.

MATH CONCEPTS COVERED:

• Review of prior skills: fractions, decimals, and percents
• Experimental probabilities
• Theoretical probabilities
• Probabilities of independent events: P(A and B) = P(A) x P(B)
• Representing probabilities as odds

RESOURCES INCLUDED:

Every resource is editable and has a step-by-step detailed answer key

• Info. for teachers: pacing guide, lesson plans, one-page easy-to-use form for recording assessment data, detailed answer keys, and rubrics
• Student unit outline and calendar
• 5 sets of scaffolded lesson notes
• 5 sets of group whiteboard activities (task cards)
• 5 individual practice assignments (differentiated by difficulty level)
• 2 sets of checkpoints (with self-assessment component)
• 1 unit review assignment
• 2 quizzes
• 1 unit test
• 1 rich task (project) where students use probability to investigate choices to make during the last few minutes of a basketball game

This unit aligns with the current Workplace Math 10 curriculum and reporting order in British Columbia, Canada (2023). But, this resource can be used/adapted for any curriculum or location since all files are editable.

LINKS TO OTHER WORKPLACE MATH 10 RESOURCES:

• Entire Workplace Math 10 Curriculum
• Unit 1: Measurement and Unit Conversions
• Unit 2: Surface Area and Volume
• Unit 3: Trigonometry
• Unit 4: Probability and Odds
• Unit 5: Statistics and Measures of Centrality
• Unit 6: Graphs and Representing Data
• Unit 7: Financial Literacy - Earning an Income
• Basic Skills Unit
• Workplace Math Rich Task Bundle

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Please note that this resource is for use by one teacher only. Colleagues must purchase additional licenses. You may not upload this resource to the internet in any form unless it is password protected for your individual class.