probabilities

Explores the facts surrounding games of chance, luck, coincidence, and probabilities.

An introduction to probability emphasizing how this science is applied to problems in science, politics, gambling, and everyday life.

Draws on examples from a wide range of sources to explore the surprising role risk and chance play in people's daily lives and offers advice on how to overcome randomness and uncertainty and better understand the mathematics of chance.

Presents a variety of math games, experiments, and investigations that help students to predict outcomes, test predictions, and formulate probability theories.

Examines the role chance plays in everyday life, whether in politics, economics, medicine, law, sports, or other activities, and explores how sceintists, researchers, and strategists have attempted to detect patterns in the chaos that rules life.

Provides an understanding of the mathematical concepts of probability through a series of easy-to-comprehend games.

On Game Day, the students at Valley Elementary School use probability to create fun games with coins, number cubes, and spinners.

A guide to the science of probability for baseball fans that explains how the mathematical concepts of odds and probabilities can be applied to statistics in baseball.

Presents twenty-six puzzles and other activities intended for children age eight and up that deal with probabilities, including one that uses the game board built into the cover.

Traces the history and development of probability and statistics from its origins in the Renaissance to its twenty-first-century applications, and includes an index, chronology, glossary, and resources for further study.