That Day We Stacked The Odds Against Us 那一天，我們獲勝的可能性很小

If you walked down Main Street on the Pudong campus of Shanghai American School recently, you’d have seen wide-eyed elementary school students, inquisitive middle school students, and laughing high school students.

前段時間，如果你走在上海美國學校浦東校區的主街上，你會看到睜大眼睛的小學生、好奇的中學生和哈哈大笑的高中生。

And you might not have guessed that what you’d come across was a lesson in integrated math. But it’s true! It’s called the Probability Project, and it’s when integrated math students from the high school at SAS in Pudong are tasked with applying what they’ve learned by developing games with varying statistical odds.

你可能沒有想到，你所看到的情形發生在一堂綜合數學課上。但事實就是這樣！這就是我們的“概率項目”。在這個項目中，上海美國學校浦東校區高中部綜合數學課的學生們將通過開發具有不同統計概率的游戲來運用所學知識。

Integrated math at SAS is an approach that brings Algebra, Advanced Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Probability into a series of three multi-disciplinary math courses. The course approach was developed by SAS faculty in Pudong and Puxi.

上海美國學校開設的綜合數學課程是一種將代數、高等代數、幾何學、三角學和概率論融入到三門多學科數學課程中的方法。該課程是由上海美國學校浦東和浦西兩個校區的教師共同開發的。

As for the Probability Project? It’s in its third year in Pudong after being developed by three faculty members, including Eric Grochowski (who goes by “Ski” unless you’re feeling formal, in which case “Mr. Ski” works). “We made a point to focus on real life projects to infuse into the math topics,” explained Ski. “I mentioned how games of chance are really interesting to both grown-ups and kids. We decided it would be authentic for the students to develop and analyze their own probability games.” Thus, the Probability Project was born.

而“概率項目”又是什么情況呢？這個項目已在浦東校區開展了三年，它是由包括Eric Grochowski（簡稱為Ski，如果你覺得應該正式些，也可以稱他為Ski先生）在內的三名教師開發的。Ski解釋說:“我們把重點放在了現實生活中的項目上，將數學主題融入其中。我說過，碰運氣的游戲對大人和孩子來說都很有趣。我們認為，讓學生們自己開發并分析概率游戲，可以把數學與現實生活聯系起來”。這個“概率項目”便由此誕生了。

There have been some memorable games in those three years. “One game had a 400 to 1 chance of winning a three-foot tall plush bear and a grade 3 student won it within the first 10 minutes,” said Ski. “The little one was very happy with her bear, and the high school students were amazed because they fully understood the incredible odds of that outcome.”

在過去的三年時間里，有些游戲令人難忘。Ski說道：“有一場游戲設計了400:1的獲獎概率，獎品則是一只三英尺高的毛絨熊玩具，一名三年級的學生在一開始的十分鐘內就贏得了獎品。這名小學生非常開心，而高中生們則很驚訝，因為他們完全明白這種結果的可能性有多小。”

The Probability Project continues to get tweaked every year, as the game results are synthesized and analyzed. After all, those three-foot tall bears are expensive!

通過對游戲結果進行綜合分析，學生們每年都在不斷調整“概率項目”。畢竟，三英尺高的毛絨熊玩具還是很貴的！

IMPROVEMENT. EVERY DAY AT SAS.

進步。就在上海美國學校的每一天。

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Founded in 1912, Shanghai American School (SAS) is the largest and most established international school in China. In short, it's the kind of school you wish you would've attended when you were a kid.

創建于1912年，上海美國學校是中國最大的也是歷史最悠久的國際學校。簡而言之，如果你能回到小的時候，這會是一所你想要去的學校。

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