DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY

Science Education Institute

(Science Teacher Academy for the Regions)
and
CARAGA STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Arts And Sciences

Training on Language Strategies in Teaching Science and Mathematics

Big Daddy’s Hotel and Convention Center

Butuan City
April 10-12, 2019

LESSON PLAN
GROUP 1
Grade Level: 11
Core Subject Title: Statistics and Probability
Facilitator: Vendy Von P. Salvan (Bayugan City)
Implementer: Romie M. Miro (Agusan del Sur)
Documenter: Jipny T. Jornales (Dinagat Islands)
Observer: Annabel C. Cubero (Surigao del Sur)
Knowledgeable Other: Sheilla D. Yamba (Siargao Islands)

I. Learning Competency: In this lesson, the students are expected to:

1. compute the probabilities corresponding to a given random variable (M11/12SP-
IIIa-6)

II. Subject Matter: COMPUTING PROBABILITIES OF RANDOM VARIABLES

A. Prerequisite Concepts and Skills:

Concepts: concepts of set, sample space, elements, outcomes, probability,
random variable, fractions

B. About the Lesson: This lesson is about computing the probabilities corresponding
to a given random variable

III. Instructional Procedure:

The class will be grouped into 5 and each group is given 2 dice.

A. Elicit/Engage (Time limit: 2 min)

Mario and Juan are playing dice. Mario challenged Juan to guess the sum of the
dots that will appear after the two dice are rolled. They agreed that if Juan guesses
the correct sum after rolling the dice, he wins. Otherwise, Mario wins.

If you were Juan, what sum would you guess?

 B. Explore (Time limit: 10 min)
To help you solve the problem, each group is provided with a pair of dice. You are
going to toss the dice for how many times you like. Record the result.

Activity Sheet No. 1

Group No._______

Tossing a Pair of Dice

We tossed the pair of dice _____ times.

We record the outcomes as shown in the table below:

Sum

No. of
time
it
occurs

Our wise guess is ____________ because_____________________________________________

We are sure that our guess is wise because___________________________________________

C. Explain (Time limit: 15 min)

The teacher asks the following questions:

1. What are the things that you need to

consider in order to arrive with the wisest guess?

2. What do you think are the possible outcomes

in rolling the two dice?

3. How many possible outcomes are there in all?

*To answer the abovementioned questions, an activity will be given.

Group Activity
Illustrate the possible outcomes when two dice are rolled. Show the possible pairs.
 *possible answer
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6
2 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6
3 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 3,6
4 4,1 4,2 4,3 4,4 4,5 4,6
5 5,1 5,2 5,3 5,4 5,5 5,6
6 6,1 6,2 6,3 6,4 6,5 6,6

*The students will post their outputs on the board.

Based on your output, what are the

possible sums? 2, 3, 4, …, 11, 12
How did you identify the possible sums? We added the outcome
of each die.
Are there outcomes that have the same sum? Yes
What are they? For the sum of 3, we have
(1,2) and ( 2, 1). And so
on…
How many possible outcomes are there in all? 36

Now, we are going to organize the outcomes based on their sum. Another activity
sheet will be provided.

Activity Sheet No. 2

Organize your data using a table below.

Sum

No. of
Outcomes
Sum 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

No. of
1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 2 1
Outcomes

*possible answer
Based on the table, how many times does
a sum of 2 occur? 1
How about 3? 2
How about 7? 6
How about 12? 1
How about 1? 0
Why? Because it is impossible
To obtain a sum of 1.
How about 13? 0
Why? Because it is also
impossible to obtain a
sum of 13.
Therefore, what can you say about the range
of the possible sums? From 2 to 12.
What is the likelihood of getting a sum of 2? 1/36
A sum of 3? 2/36 or 1/18
A sum of 4? 3/36 or 1/12
How did you get your answer? *Answers may vary.
What do you call the sums obtained? Do they vary?
Do they take different values? The sums are random
Variables and they take
different values.
 *The teacher will guide the students in filling up the table below.

Random Variable (S) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Number of Outcomes 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 2 1

Probability
1/36 2/36 3/36 4/36 5/36 6/36 5/36 4/36 3/36 2/36 1/36
P(S)

C. Elaborate (Time limit: 10 min)

1. How do we compute the probability of a random variable?

*To answer the above question, the class will be given the following activity sheet.

Activity Sheet No. 3

How do we compute the probability of a random variable?

I know a way to …

First, …

Second, …

Third, …

Finally, …

By doing these steps, …

I know a way to compute probabilities of discrete random variable.

First, I find the total number of possible outcomes.

Second, I find the number of favorable outcomes.

Third, I divide the number of favorable outcomes by the total number of possible
outcomes.

Finally, the result I obtained represents the probability of the random variable.

By doing these steps, I know how to compute the probability of a given random
variable.
Going back to the scenario of Mario and Juan
playing dice, do you think your guess was the wisest? *Answers may vary.
Why do you say so? *Answers may vary.
If you were Juan, would you agree with the deal? No, because I only
have a smaller chance
to win compared to
Mario. The game is
biased.

E. Evaluate (Time limit: 3 min)

Table Completion
1. Three coins are tossed. Let Z be the random variable representing the number of
heads that occur. Find the values of the random variable Z and their corresponding
probability values.

Value of Random Variable Z Probability P(Z)