Florida B.E.S.T. MA.7.DP.2.1
The Standard
Determine the sample space for a simple experiment.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify every distinct result that could occur in a one-step chance situation. They record the outcomes clearly using a list, set, table, or diagram.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a coin, die, spinner, or bag, students create a complete list with no missing or impossible results. They distinguish possible outcomes from the number of ways each outcome can occur.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list only likely outcomes or outcomes they observed during trials. They may repeat an outcome, omit one, or include a result that cannot happen.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A bag contains three red, two blue, one green, and one yellow counter. List the possible colors from one draw and explain why the list is complete.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Place red, blue, and green cubes in bags; students inspect each bag and write the possible colors for one blind draw.
Show two lists for a six-sided die, then ask students to defend which list includes every possible outcome and no extras.
Play a matching game with experiment cards and outcome-list cards for coins, dice, spinners, and bags.
Use a carnival prize wheel image; students list the prizes a player could receive and check that every labeled prize appears.
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Related Standards
- MA.7.DP.2.3
Find the theoretical probability of an event related to a simple experiment.
- MA.7.DP.2.4
Use a simulation of a simple experiment to find experimental probabilities and compare them to theoretical probabilities.
- MA.912.DP.4.1
Describe events as subsets of a sample space using characteristics, or categories, of the outcomes, or as unions, intersections or complements of other events.
- MA.8.DP.2.1
Determine the sample space for a repeated experiment.
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