Egg roulette
This video shows two teachers playing a game of egg roulette, taking it turns to smash eggs on their heads. The problem is three are raw and the remainder are cooked. This 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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Probability
- Topic
- Chance and probability
- Audience
- Teachers Students
- Format
- Video
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding chance (P6)
- Publisher
- Education Services Australia
- Copyright
- © Education Services Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- conditional probability
- Other terms
- compound events
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