Probability (7 lessons)

In this sequence of 7 lessons, students explore independent and compound events through two-way tables, tree diagrams and conducting simulations.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 9
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Explicit teaching, Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords	summative assessment, assign probabilities, arrays, tree diagrams, lists, without replacement, with replacement, two-step chance experiments, outcomes
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Probability
Topics	Chance and probability
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M9P03 Design and conduct repeated chance experiments and simulations, using digital tools to compare probabilities of simple events to related compound events, and describe results AC9M9P02 Calculate relative frequencies from given or collected data to estimate probabilities of events involving "and", inclusive "or" and exclusive "or" AC9M9P01 List all outcomes for compound events both with and without replacement, using lists, tree diagrams, tables or arrays; assign probabilities to outcomes
Numeracy progression	Understanding chance (P6)
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Organisation	Victoria State Government Department of Education
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