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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.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Copyright | © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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