Probability and statistics in game design (4 lessons)

In this sequence of 4 lessons, students analyse data, bias, and probability using games to explore fairness, strategies, and the difference between experimental and theoretical results.

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, real-world scenarios, bias, sampling methods, independent events, theoretical probabilities, experimental probabilities
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Statistics, Probability
Topics	Chance and probability, Statistical investigations
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 AC9M9ST03 Represent the distribution of multiple data sets for numerical variables using comparative representations; compare data distributions with consideration of centre, spread and shape, and the effect of outliers on these measures AC9M9ST02 Analyse how different sampling methods can affect the results of surveys and how choice of representation can be used to support a particular point of view AC9M9ST01 Analyse reports of surveys in digital media and elsewhere for information on how data was obtained to estimate population means and medians
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P8) Understanding chance (P6)
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Organisation	Victoria State Government Department of Education
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