Mathematics / Year 10 / Statistics and Probability / Chance

Curriculum content descriptions

Use the language of ‘if ....then, ‘given’, ‘of’, ‘knowing that’ to investigate conditional statements and identify common mistakes in interpreting such language (ACMSP247)

Elaborations
  • using two-way tables and Venn diagrams to understand conditional statements
  • using arrays and tree diagrams to determine probabilities
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Critical thinking,  Conditional probability

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