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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Probability
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7P01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding chance (P5)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Copyright
- © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- sample space
- Other terms
- YuMi Deadly
- File type
- File size
- 0.5 MB
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