Spinner activity and record sheets which can be used at CL2-4 depending on the questions you ask and activities that you use with it.

Open the zip file for resources.

 

Start by showing the spinner and asking “What might happen, what will happen and what won’t happen?”

Get students to spin 24 times and see what happens (can record on tally sheet).

Compare with what they thought would/wouldn’t happen. Is it fair?

 

For CL4, you can get them to spin it twice and add their score. Predict what the most likely total will be.

Try it and record results and compare it with their prediction.

See if they can figure out the theoretical probability of each total.

Can then give the “Student results sheet” to fill in the table to find all possible outcomes and use fractions to describe the probabilities.

 

Shared by Dianne Ogle.

 

Three Coin game and worksheet targeted at CL5.

Open zip file for game board, instructions and worksheet.

Originally from https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/fair-games-0

• Three-stage chance situation
• Is the game fair?
• Systematically listing all possible outcomes using tree diagrams and other relevant tools such as two way tables.
• Recording results and plotting frequencies of outcomes.
• Comparing experimental estimates with theoretical model probabilities.

Shared by Helen Teal

Probability game and worksheet targeted at CL4

Open zip folder for resources.

• Rolling 2 dice and finding the differences between them.
• Calculating experimental probabilities.
• Use a systematic list to find all possible outcomes – eg) 2-way table, and therefore the theoretical probabilities.
• Comparing experimental with theoretical probabilities

Shared by Helen Teal

A collaborative work by Helen Teal, Tanya Gwillam and Nicola Mann (from Whangarei Girls’ High School) using the NZ Curriculum Documents and the curriculum elaborations from NZ Maths.

 

We used this to help with our teaching and assessment of the topic.