Mathematics / Year 6 / Statistics and Probability / Chance

Curriculum content descriptions

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
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Probability

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