Learning is Fun and Worthwhile

At the start of the semester, we did a Healthy Fish activity. This activity was fun and interactive. Plus we got a snack when we were finished;)  This activity involved a small snack sized pack of rainbow goldfish and a provided worksheet. It was interesting to see everyone's various reactions to organizing the goldfish at the start. As you can see I organized mine by color and in a pattern. I tend to like things neat and organized, and visually appealing. The object of the activity (which is listed at the top of the worksheet provided to us) was; to understand how probability was determined, to understand experimental versus theoretical probability, to understand the properties of probability, and to understand mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events. We went through the series of questions and completed the worksheet guiding us to understand each of the objectives. The questions were based on the fact that the fish represented healthy and sick fish. The gr...