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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics Probability
- Topic
- Chance and probability Statistical investigations
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P8) Understanding chance (P6)
- Publisher
- Victoria State Government Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State Government of Victoria. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- experimental probability
- Other terms
- bias sampling methods independent events theoretical probabilities summative assessment real-world scenarios
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