To do this part
of the lesson, you will need:
Below is a table that illustrates 5 trials. The first trial turned up prize #1 three times, and prize #3 five times. Can you tell which was the last prize for each trial? How?
Now make your own table like this one. Instead of numbers, you will probably have tally marks in your table.
| Prize #1 | Prize #2 | Prize #3 | Prize #4 | Prize #5 | Prize #6 | Total Number of Rolls | |
| Trial #1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 16 |
| Trial #2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| Trial #3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| Trial #4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 18 |
| Trial #5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 20 |
An empty table is available for print out.
After you have have completed your table, find the average of all the trials done by your class. (For example, in the table above, the average is 77/5 = 15.4) This is your experimental expected value. Now check and see how close this is to the theoretical value.