Probability and simulations (8 lessons)

In this sequence of 8 lessons, students run chance experiments, design simulations, and compare theoretical and experimental probabilities using data.

Additional details

Year level(s) Year 7
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Explicit teaching, Worked examples, Questioning, Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords experimental probabilities, theoretical probabilities, random numbers, summative assessment

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Probability
Topics Chance and probability
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M7P01
Identify the sample space for single-stage events; assign probabilities to the outcomes of these events and predict relative frequencies for related events

Numeracy progression Understanding chance (P5)

Copyright details

Organisation

Victoria State Government Department of Education

Copyright

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