Egg roulette: Part 1
Smashing good fun learning about probability without replacement, by playing and exploring the game of egg roulette – 12 eggs, 3 raw and 9 cooked. Contestants take it in turns to choose an egg and smash it on their head, hoping to avoid the 3 raw eggs!
In Part 2, students consolidate and make deeper connections using simulation to address misconceptions on this abstract concept.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Probability
- Topic
- Chance and probability
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding chance (P6)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- compound event
- Other terms
- with and without replacement inclusive events exclusive events Maths Hub lesson plan
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Egg roulette
This video is a fun demonstration of a game of chance without replacement. This video relates to the Year 9 probability lesson: Egg roulette: Part 1 whereby students use probabilistic reasoning to assign probabilities and solve conditional probability problems using two tables.
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Egg roulette: Part 2
In this lesson, students consolidate and make deeper connections using simulation to address misconceptions on this abstract concept.
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