Yesterday we did a fun project on a probability problem / game my son was working on. The game involves rolling three 10-sided dice and adding up the numbers. Repeat the process until you’ve seen one of the sums 40 times. Yesterday 15 was the winner:
Here’s yesterday’s project:
A probability and stats problem with dice my younger son was working on today
I wrote a short program on Mathematica to play my son’s game 1,000,000 times. I was interested to see how each of the boys would interpret the results.
Here’s what my older son had to say:
Here’s what my younger son had to say:
It is interesting to hear what kids have to say about the various probabilities and distributions. The results of the 1,000,000 simulations are probably pretty surprising. This problem that my son made up is actually a pretty fun problem to explore with kids.
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