Premise
Materials
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- Pot of Gold game marker handout (included in resource) (1)
- Alternative: Use pots of “gold” (Gold chocolate coins, Almond Hershey’s Kisses or Rolos
- Paper plates (2 – 4)
- Bobby pins and/or paperclips (8 – 12)
- Tape (12 – 24 in.)
- Craft sticks (5 – 10)
- Toothpicks (10 – 20)
- Coin (any coin with heads and tails – 1)
- Markers/crayons
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Data recording & design analysis handouts (included in resource)
Optional
- Pipe cleaners (1-2)
- Straws (3 – 5)
- Index cards (5 – 10)
Video Walk-through
Are There Other St. Patrick’s Day Challenges Like This?
Of course! I can’t help myself! I have created 5 challenges for St. Pat’s! You can find the overview of each on this blog post. Each challenge is linked to the post linked above, so be sure to check back weekly!
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Video Transcription
In the criteria and constraints, the students must design frisbees that have four distinct leaves. Each student will make his or her own frisbee, although it can match the partner’s design if they choose to do so, and the main goal of this challenge is that when the frisbee is tossed or flipped, that it will always land heads up. Now, of course, that’s not entirely realistic, so for me, anything greater than 50% probability when they do their testing is success.
compound probability, as well as, word problem and process flow templates.