Renaissance Project
You may be asking yourself what is probability and why is important to know. Well first of all probability is the measure of likeliness that something will occur. Probability is important to know for many different reasons like you getting the odds of your favorite team winning the championship. There are many parts of probability the ones we focused on were theoretical, observed, and conditional. Theoretical probability is what most people use say if you had 3 yellow cubes and 9 red ones the theoretical probability of you getting a yellow cube is 3/12. observed probability is the observation of random variables. Conditional probability is the probability of event (b) after event (A) occurs. Expected value is a predicted value of a variable. Tree diagrams help see all the possible outcomes of a event. joint probability is the likely hood of two events occurring together.
for this exhibition we had to evaluate games from the renaissance time and find one that had probability. In this project we had to use our researching skills, it certainly wasn't easy determining if the game we picked had probability involved in it. The game my group chose is the game of as-nas. The game of as-nas was dated back to the early 1700 and was usually played by common folk. The purpose of this game was to get the most amount of the same cards with the highest meaning. The modern version of this game if you haven't guessed is called poker many people who have played as-nas today say it has many of the same traits. As you can see below this is a example of the cards we used for our demonstration.
for this exhibition we had to evaluate games from the renaissance time and find one that had probability. In this project we had to use our researching skills, it certainly wasn't easy determining if the game we picked had probability involved in it. The game my group chose is the game of as-nas. The game of as-nas was dated back to the early 1700 and was usually played by common folk. The purpose of this game was to get the most amount of the same cards with the highest meaning. The modern version of this game if you haven't guessed is called poker many people who have played as-nas today say it has many of the same traits. As you can see below this is a example of the cards we used for our demonstration.
How does as-nas represent probability?
I was asking the same question when we first started this project I never thought I would be able to understand how it is involved. Here i will explain It step by step. 1st of all there are 25 cards involved with this game. 2nd of all there are only 5 cards with the same faces on them. so the theoretical probability of me getting the cards with the same face on them are 5/25. But the tricky part is when the get shuffled and you only get dealt 5 cards so your odds of getting all cards with the same face significantly fall.
reflection
To be honest I enjoyed certain things about this project, but if i could change one thing it would be the length. I think spending the whole first semester on probability is kind of illogical especially when some students of the class have already learned most of the teaching. But other then that I think it was a really great experience learning about probability and how I might be able to apply it in my life.