Random+coin+flips

Random Coin Flips (Key Curriculum) BACK TO PROBABILITY PAGE This activity provides an introduction to the concept of randomness by looking at coin-flip data. For example, the average //number of runs// tends to be greater for the students guessing the H/T results without actually tossing a coin. Also, the lengths of the longest runs tend to be shorter for the students guessing the H/T results.

Here are four sets of coin-flip data [one is shown below]. Some of these results are actually from flipping a coin. But others were made up by students to look like real coin flips. For each sequence, note whether you think the results are real or fake. There are thirteen runs in this sample, do you think it is real or fake?
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TinkerPlots Video Tutorial - Coin Flip //Posted May 20, 2017//

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