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One word changes it all

Students discuss where two situations 'can occur', 'may occur' or 'will not occur'. They then go on to explore the use of the words 'and' and 'or' and their meaning in the context of probability.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model, Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching
Keywords	probability, sample space, outcome, unfavourable, favourable, event, trial, experiment
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking
Strand and focus	Probability, Apply understanding, Build understanding, Statistics
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8P02 Determine all possible combinations for 2 events, using two-way tables, tree diagrams and Venn diagrams, and use these to determine probabilities of specific outcomes in practical situations
Numeracy progression	Understanding chance (P6)
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Organisation	Queensland University of Technology
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