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Title: Picking Fortune Cookies
Url: https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~anistat/testCookie.html
Creator: Garsia, A.M.
Publisher: University of California, San Diego. Dept. of Mathematics
Description: This applet, created by A.M. Garsia of the University of California - San Diego, is a probabilistic study of picking fortunes from a limited supply of fortune cookies. The student will try to answer how many cookies he/she has to eat to have a 50/50 chance of reading all the fortunes. This is an easy to use and fun activity for any mathematics classroom. It puts this real world situation into an understandable mathematics context.
LC Classification: Science -- Mathematics -- Mathematical statistics -- Study and teaching. Research
Science -- Mathematics -- Probabilities -- Study and teaching. Research
GEM Subject: Mathematics -- Statistics
Mathematics -- Probability
Key Concept: Mathematics -- Probability
Mathematics -- Statistics
Resource Type: Instructional Material -- Model
Instructional Material -- Demonstration
Instructional Material -- Interactive Simulation
Instructional Material -- Instructor Guide/Manual
Format: Document -- HTML
Application -- Java
Audience: Educator
Learner
Education Level: High School
Higher Education
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education
Language: English
Access Rights: Free access
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