xJohnny Ang National High School

Katangawan, General Santos City

LESSON PLAN IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS – GRADE 11

COMPETENCY: The learner constructs the probability mass function of a discrete random variable
and its corresponding histogram (M11/12SP-IIIa-5)

I. OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the session the students should be able to present a discrete random probability
distribution in:
(a) tabular form; and
(b) graphical form (histogram)

II. SUBJECT MATTER

TOPIC: Probability Distribution of Discrete Random Variable
Sub-Topics: 1. Constructing a table of probability distribution for discrete
random variable
2. Presenting the data in graphical form or histogram

References: Conceptual Math and Beyond---Statistics and Probability , pp.6-13

Materials Needed: coins, dice, problem strips, powerpoint presentations/LCD Projector
Time Frame: 1-hour session
Values Integration: cooperation, teamwork, participation
Teaching Strategy: the use of 4A’s

III. PROCEDURES

A. Preliminary
1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of Attendance

B. Review
Which of the given examples represents a discrete random variable?
Why? How do you distinguish one from the other? Can you differentiate the two?

1. The number of students in this III-A class.

2. The weight of students in Grade 11 STEM group.

C. Motivation (PPT Presentation)

*Eliciting from students about their experiences with engaging in games of chances like
tossing coins, buying a lottery ticket, and the like.
*Allow students to speak up and share to the class their personal experiences.
*Ask them if they know their percentage of winning or their probability to get their
target. Relate this to the new thing that they will discover in our new lesson.
*Unscramble the Letters: A brain Teaser to activate prior knowledge.

D. ACTIVITY (Group Work + Explicit Timing)

a. Group the class into four (4) groups. Let one group member from each group
pick one problem strip. Give them their needed materials to help them
visualize their possible outcomes.
b. The group will analyze the problem given to them. They will list the possible
outcomes and the number of times these possible outcomes P(x) occur. They
are going to present the data given in tabular form and in graphical form. They
will write their output on a piece of a manila paper.
c. One representative of the group will explain to the class their group analysis
and their answers. Every group will be scored through a rubric. The winning
group will be given a price.
 Rubric for Presentation

CRITERIA Excellent Good Fair Poor

(4) (3) (2) (1)
Presentation is Presentation Presentation No
Descriptors generally clear is reflective is unclear presentation
and reflective of something and difficult
of students’ learned; lacks to follow.
personalized clarity and
ideas. accounts have
limited
support.

PROBLEM STRIPS
1. Toss a coin 3 times. Use tree mapping to determine all the
possible outcomes that will come out. What will be the probability
of having no heads, having 1 head, having 2 heads, and having 3
heads? Present your result in tabular form and in graphical form
(histogram).

2. There are 8 balls in a tray; 3 are red, 3 are yellow, 2 are blue.
You pick 3 balls with replacement. What is your chance of picking
red balls? You can use tree mapping or you can also list down all
possible outcomes. Construct a table of values representing these
chances. Graph your data using a histogram.

3. In a classroom having 50 students, 10 students have no cellphones,

25 have 1cellphone, and 15 have 2 cellphones. Prepare a data
presentation of proportion of students who have no cellphones,
who have one(1) cellphone, and who have two(2) cellphones in
tabular form and in graphical form(histogram).

4. Three balls numbered 2, 5, and 7 are placed inside a tray. If we

draw 2 balls with replacement, find the probability that their sum
is odd. Present your answer in tabular form and in graphical form
or histogram.

*Give these Guide Questions and Guide Statements while the students are answering
their group activity:
- Can you list down all the possible outcomes? How many?
- Can you see the common characteristics that you are looking for among the outcomes?
For example, those outcomes having no heads, having 1 head, having 2 heads, and having
3 heads.
- Determine the frequency for each type, those having a common characteristic. Count the
outcomes according to their common characteristics. Record it on your table.
- What will you write on your probability distribution?
- How will you write your probability ratio?
- How about your graph? How do you make a histogram?

E. ANALYSIS
How did you find the activity? Why?
How did you made your categories and determine the frequencies?
How did you complete the tables?
How did you graph?

F. ABSTRACTION
 -Give the following problem as an illustrative example and elaborate the details or the
steps to be followed in tabulating and in graphing.

 A basket contains 10 ripe bananas and 4 unripe bananas. If three bananas are
taken from the basket one after the other with replacement, determine the possible values
of the random variable R representing the number of ripe bananas. Graph this
probability distribution.

-Encourage a student to volunteer to summarize the necessary steps in tabulating and

graphing a probability distribution. Supplement the generalization if there are things
forgotten to be mentioned.

G. APPLICATION/EVALUATION

Construct the probability distribution and the probability histogram of the discrete
random variable for each of the following situations.

1. Suppose you played tossing coins with your friend. Two coins are tossed. Let T be
the number of tails that occur. The discrete random variable is T.
a. Construct the probability distribution for the random variable T.
b. Construct the probability histogram.

2. You are watching your nephews playing with coins. Four coins are tossed. Let T be
the number of tails that occur.
a. Construct the probability distribution for the random variable T.
b. Construct the probability histogram.

H. ASSIGNMENT

1. Two balanced dice are rolled. Let S be the random variable denoting the sum of the
number of dots that will appear.
c. Construct the probability distribution for the random variable S.
d. Construct the probability histogram.
2. Construct a probability distribution about the number of family members of ten
households in your neighborhood. Present this in tabular and graphical form.

Prepared by:

ALJON D. TABUADA, T-II

Johny-ang National High School

Checked by:

MARILYN E. CATEQUISTA
Principal I