Rock, Paper, Scissors GO!!!

In my math class we always have some type of fun. It is elementary education mathematics for teachers for a reason after all. So this activity required the class to work in partners and we played rock, paper, scissors 45 times and recorded what we got not just who won. Meaning that we had a table set up so the top part was player 1 and the side was player 2 and then there was paper columns, scissors columns, and rock columns and we would tally what combination we got.

When we were done we used the data to set up our probabilities of how many times player 1 won, how many times player 2 won, and how many times we got a tie. My partner and had a lot of ties. then we did a theoretical probability of the games. Basically what would make a fair set of rounds. then we compared the the experimental probability and the the theoretical probability.