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| Probability | W.H. Freeman & Co. | Users can simulate tossing a coin to see the proportion of heads and how that value may vary substantially from 0.5 for a small number of samples but eventually settles down near the true proportion. more
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| The Law of Averages | Schneiter, Utah State Univ. | Users can simulate tossing a coin or die to see the proportion of heads or threes and how that value may vary substantially from 0.5 for a small number of samples but eventually settles down near the true proportion. more
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| Simulating the probability of a head with an unfair coin (P(H) = 0.2) | Prentice-Hall applets (West) | Users simulate the tossing of an unfair coin multiple times and compare observed proportion of heads to theoretical. See also same url except with probsim3.html and probsim5.html to show same experiment with fair coin and unfair coin with P(H) = 0.8, respectively. more |
| Simulating the probability of rolling a 6 | Prentice-Hall applets (West) | Users simulate the tossing of one die multiple times and compare observed relative frequencies to theoretical. See also same url except with probsim2.html to show same experiment for probability of a 3 or a 4. more
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| Law of Large Numbers | W.H. Freeman & Co. | Simulates rolling of a die or dice to illustrate via a graph that the sample average of all of the rolls eventually approaches the population mean as the number of rolls increases. more |
| Lottery Game | Center for Polymer Studies (Trunfio and McGath) | Users try to guess what the result of the next flip of a coin will be, can also flip until either 4 heads or 4 tails are flipped in a row and then use a strategy for guessing (winning streak, luck will run out, equal chances of heads/tails). Use to counter student misconceptions. See http://polymer.bu.edu/java/java/winning/WinningStreak.html for possible student instructions to go with this applet. more |
| Frequency Distribution | Collection of Applets, Math Forum at Drexel (Palu) | Lists all possible experimental outcomes and graphs probabilities of for tossing 1-4 dice or 1-10 coins. more |
| Dice Probabilities | Wolfram Demonstrations Project | Users can view probability distributions, in both tabular and graphical format, of random variables arising from rolling a specified number of dice (1-10) with a given number of sides (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20). Requires download of Mathematica player and demo itself, good for classroom demonstration. more |