Cambridge Mathematics

Potential client: Darren Macey <Darren.Macey@Cambridgemaths.org>

Possible project title: Cascading Galton Boards

Children struggle to learn basic ideas of probability distributions and sampling, despite the fact that we see these all around us in very intuitive forms. The Galton Board (see galtonboard.com) is a mechanical simulation that makes the relationship between normal and binomial distributions very clear. But physical Galton Boards are hard to make. Your task is to make a customisable animated simulation - but not just of a single distribution. Users should be able to chain multiple boards together, associating them with descriptive equations, to help teach conditional probability and an intuitive derivation of Bayes theorem.