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Chances are!
Students calculate the sum of probabilities for a chance experiment and compare frequency predictions with actual data.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5 Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Probability
- Topic
- Chance and probability
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding chance (P3, P4) Proportional thinking (P1)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Copyright
- © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- chance experiment (trial) data analysis data displays
- Other terms
- YuMi Deadly spinners
- File type
- File size
- 0.5 MB
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