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Mathematics / Year 6 / Statistics and Probability / Chance

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Describe probabilities using fractions, decimals and percentages (ACMSP144)

Elaborations
  • investigating games of chance popular in different cultures and evaluating the relative benefits to the organisers and participants (for example Pachinko)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Probability

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Catalyst: Probability and the gambler's fallacy

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Mathematician Lily Serna visits Luna Park to explain a great probability pitfall. She shares a century-old tale from Monte Carlo casino, and then she puts its lesson to the test. If you flip a coin and it lands on heads three times in a row, what result would you predict for the next flip? Find out why intuition might land ...

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What Are the Chances?

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Do you know what chance is? It's the probability or the likelihood of something happening. Watch this video as Grace explains the probability of picking a red marble out of a bowl. What's the probability of picking a green marble?

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Comparing chance

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A simple interactive simulation in which students compare probabilities.

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Can We Help Same birthday whats the chance video

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Mathematician Adam Spencer answers a question about something called the 'birthday paradox'. Find out what this has to do with birthdays and the number of people in a room.

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Catalyst: Probability and the birthday paradox

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Even when a maths problem seems simple – for example, the chance of two people sharing a birthday – the maths can run counter to our human intuition. Mathematician Lily Serna poses a maths problem to the Clovelly Bowling Club: how many people do you need to gather to get a 50 per cent chance of any two people in that group ...

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