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Mathematics / Year 6 / Statistics and Probability / Chance

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Compare observed frequencies across experiments with expected frequencies (ACMSP146)

Elaborations
  • predicting likely outcomes from a run of chance events and distinguishing these from surprising results
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Observations (Data),  Statistical frequency,  Expected frequency

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Statistics games

  • TLF-IDM020720

This resource is a web page containing three dice games to explore chance. Each dice game has simple instructions to play the interactive strategy game. The games provide a useful way to investigate the chance of rolling a particular number after successive trials. This resource is one activity from the NRICH collection.

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Work sample Year 6 Mathematics: Interpreting and comparing data

  • TLF-IDA004057

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 6 Mathematics. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...

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ACMF: Effects of selective breeding

  • TLF-IDM016060

This resource is a web page providing information about an experiment on the growth rate of different chicken breeds carried out by students at James Ruse Agricultural High School in NSW, which shows the influence of selective breeding on chicken weight. It includes a side-by-side column graph comparing the weight of egg ...

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Interpret and compare data displays: Year 6 – planning tool

  • TLF-IDA003270

This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Interpret and compare data displays. Students interpret and compare datasets using different data displays and visualisations.

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Loaded dice

  • TLF-IDA003522

Students conduct chance experiments, record data into a frequency table and represent data using a column graph.

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Hologram poetry lesson

  • TLF-IDA002719

In this lesson, students are asked to present a poem as a visual illusion. They explore holograms and visual illusions, and then delve into the mechanics of poetry construction by exploring the poetry of Banjo Paterson. They write their own poem or recite a poem and create a hologram illusion of themselves reciting a poem. ...

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Chances are!

  • TLF-IDA003523

Students calculate the sum of probabilities for a chance experiment and compare frequency predictions with actual data.

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Conduct chance experiments: Year 6 – planning tool

  • TLF-IDA003269

This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Conduct chance experiments. Students predict the frequency of an outcome of repeated chance experiments. They conduct simulations using digital tools to generate and record the outcomes, and observe the effect of many trials on the outcome. They then compare observed ...

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Possible outcomes: Year 6 – planning tool

  • TLF-IDA003271

This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Possible outcomes. Students represent the probability of an event occurring on a scale of zero to one as decimals, fractions or percentages.

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