Students build probabilistic reasoning about coin flipping outcomes through this activity. They investigate the question, “If you shake and toss 24 coins, is the result likely to be more heads, tails, or balanced?” There are opportunities for students to strengthen their number sense with embedded practice for groupitizing and concepts related to combining negative and positive integers.
The lesson plan and materials are provided in Google Slides— click below to view the slides or make your own copy of them. Slides labeled with a “T” in the upper right corner are included for teacher information about the lesson. Slides labeled with an “S” in the upper right corner are for students. If handouts are needed there are links to them in the teacher slides. All slides can be adapted.
