Electronic Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, October 30-November 2, 2003

Paper S092

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Corinna Mansfield, ISBN 0-321-30456-x, Copyright (C) 2005 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.


Gaming Simulations in Probability

Julie Belock


Department of Mathematics
Salem State College
Salem, MA 01970
USA


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ABSTRACT

Activities to investigate the probability distributions of games such as Bingo and others will be presented. Simulations on the TI-83 and Excel are used to pave the way to student understanding of the theoretical distributions. Originally developed for an upper-level probability course, selected activities have been adapted for introductory statistics.

Keyword(s): probability, simulation, TI-83, Minitab, spreadsheets