What are the odds?
What events are 'certain', 'impossible' or 'sometimes likely' to happen in the students’ local environment? Students discuss these events or happenings and justify why these fall into the stated category.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
|---|---|
| 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, impossible, certain, event, theoretical, likelihood, RAMR, YuMi Deadly Mathematics |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Probability, Apply understanding, Build understanding |
| 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)
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Copyright details |
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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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