Let’s Play Plinko: A Lesson in Simulations and Experimental Probabilities

Susie M. Lanier; Sharon M. Barrs

doi:10.5951/MT.96.9.0626

Let’s Play Plinko: A Lesson in Simulations and Experimental Probabilities

Susie M. Lanier, Sharon M. Barrs

Mathematical Sciences

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Abstract

Fans of the television game show The Price is Right call Plink their favorite pricing game. Although traveling to the CBS studios in Los Angeles, California, to be a contestant on The Price is Right is only a dream for most students, the exciting game of Plinko can be used to teach students such mathematics as simulations and experimental probabilities.

Original language	American English
Journal	Mathematics Teacher
Volume	96
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5951/MT.96.9.0626
State	Published - Dec 1 2003

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Education
Mathematics

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Experimental probabilities
Plinko
Simulations

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Let’s Play Plinko: A Lesson in Simulations and Experimental Probabilities

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