Fire!!

URL: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/fire1/index.html
Abstract: Teachers may use this admittedly unrealistic simulation to help students understand how the probability of an event is related to the final outcome. Teachers can explain that even in this simulation, multiple simulated forest fires with the same probability will produce cumulative results close to the selected probability.
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Audience:Learner
Learning Resource Type: Lesson, Simulation
Subjects: 
Subjects
Mathematics
Discrete mathematics
Chaos
Probability
Format: image/jpeg, text/html, application/x-java applet, image/gif
Contributors: Shodor Education Foundation (Author), Shodor Education Foundation (Publisher)
Copyright Information: Copyright 1997-2004 The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
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