probabilities

When an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth in four days, eleven-year-old Kemi, who loves scientific facts and probability, assembles a time capsule to capture her family's truth as she tries to come to terms with saying goodbye.

"On October 16, 1987 meteorologists predicted a nice, breezy day in the south of England. Instead, the countryside was battered by the worst storm to hit the country in over 300 years. Twenty-two people were killed and damages totaled more than 3.3 million dollars. In the aftermath, scientists asked themselves: why was the forecast wrong? What could have been done to predict this? Meteorologist Tim Palmer discovered the answer: it comes down to embracing chaos. In The Primacy of Doubt, Palmer tells the story of how scientists learned to accurately predict the weather, and how we can use those insights to predict everything else, from the workings of the brain and how it creates consciousness to how quantum mechanics enables everything we see to emerge from just four basic particles"--Provided by publisher.

"For fans of Charles Duhigg, Philip Tetlock and Nate Silver, a brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at the Wall Street Journal"--Provided by the publisher.

Ted Severson jokingly tells Lily Kintner, the woman on the plane next to him on a flight from London to Boston, that he really would like his wife dead, and Lily surprises him by saying that she would like to help.

Uses animals on a farm to explore how using probability can help readers form conclusions about the likelihood of future events.

A group of students use graphs and charts to record and show some of their favorite things and activities from the school year. Text presented in Spanish.

We can use Probability to predict the weather or the chances a batter will strike out.

Photographs, illustrations, and simple text introduce the students at Valley Elementary School to the concepts of probability using coins, number cubes, and spinners.

After learning about probability at school, Lisa has to complete an assignment and find things that fit into the categories of will, might, and cannot happen.