Mathematics / Year 5 / Statistics and Probability / Chance

Curriculum content descriptions

Recognise that probabilities range from 0 to 1 (ACMSP117)

Elaborations
  • investigating the probabilities of all outcomes for a simple chance experiment and verifying that their sum equals 1
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Probability,  Statistical frequency

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