Johnny Ang National High School

Katangawan, General Santos City

Date: October 28, 2019

LESSON PLAN IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS – GRADE 11

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
 Identify the two types of a random variable; and
 Distinguish a discrete versus a continuous random variable.

II. Subject Matter

Code: M11/12SP-IIIa-1-2
Learning Integers: Discrete and Continuous Random Variables
Reference: (2014) 1,001 Statistics Practice Problems for Dummies.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Materials: Board, Chalk, Task Card, Paper, Laptop

III. Procedure
A. Preliminary Activities
 Prayer
 Greetings
 Checking of Attendance
 Collecting of Assignments
 Review
 Random variable is a variable whose value is dependent to the
outcome of a well-defined random event or experiment (such as
throwing a pair of dice or drawing a card from a standard deck).
 Discrete variable is a quantitative variable whose value can only be
attained through counting. It can be finite in number of possible values
or countably infinite if the counting process has no end.
 Continuous variable is a quantitative variable that can assume an
infinitely many, uncountable number of real number values. The value
given to an observation can include values as small as the instrument of
measurement allows.

B. Lesson Proper
 Motivation
Suppose you wanted to collect data from a certain sample, what are the
things to be considered?
 Activity
Materials: Paper and Pen
Instructions(on Task Card):
Round1. Count from 1 to 2. In a piece of paper, copy the following random
variables below. All number 1’s should put a check on random variables that
are countable. All number 2’s should put a check on random variables which
have no exact values.

Round2. Find a partner whose number is similar to yours. Discuss and share
to each other why you checked the random variable to be countable/have no
exact value. Then find a pair again whose number is not similar to yours and
do the same.
 Round3. Volunteers share their answers to the whole class.

RANDOM VARIABLES
the length of time a battery lasts
the weight of an adult
the percentage of children in a population who have been vaccinated against
measles
the number of books purchased by a student in a year
the distance between a pair of cities
the number of children in a family
the annual rainfall in a city
the attendance at a football game
the number of patients treated at an emergency room in a day
the number of classes taken in one semester by a student

 Analysis
What have you learned in the activity?
What can you observe regarding the quantity and quality of the random
variables?
How did you determine whether the random variables are countable or have
no exact values?
What do you call these types of random variables?
 Abstraction
Types of Random Variables
1. Discrete Random Variable- a random variable where the set of
possible values is at most countable and finite or defined.
- is one that can take on only values
that are integers (positive and negative whole numbers and 0).
Example: the attendance of a Grade 8-Venus class
Question: Is the value of our example an integer?

2. Continuous Random Variable – a random variable where the set

of possible values is infinite and do not assume exact values.
-takes on all possible values within an interval on the real
number line (such as all real numbers between –2 and 2, written
as [–2, 2]).
Example: the distance between a pair of cities
*Give a possible interval value for our example.

 Application
Suppose you were collecting data about cats, in two columns give 5 discrete
and 5 continuous data you might collect.
Example: number of legs
IV. Evaluation
In a piece of paper, copy and encircle the correct answer of the following. Explain
your answer.
 1. Which of the following random variables is discrete?
(A) the proportion of a population that voted in the last election
(B) the height of a college student
(C) the number of cars registered in a city
(D) the weight of flour in a sack advertised as containing ten pounds
(E) the length of a phone call
2. Which of the following random variables is continuous?
(A) the number of seniors in a college
(B) the number of gold medals won by the athletes from Philippines
(C) the number of schools in a city
(D) the number of registered physicians in the Philippines
(E) the amount of gasoline used in the Philippines in 2015

V. Assignment
Study in advance on how to find the possible values of random variables then try
to give the possible values for the random variables in number 1.

Prepared by:

ALJON D. TABUADA, T-II

Johny-ang National High School