Dice duels: airport addition

• Students collect and handle data about random events to test conjectures about variation and probabilities.
• Students interpret frequency graphs to identify theoretical probabilities.
• Students distinguish between even and uneven data distributions.
• Students compare theoretical and experimentally derived data distributions.
• Students relate the shape of data distributions to statements about sample variation and sample size.

• Provides scenarios for students to use dice as a means to explore relationships between bias, proportions, sample size, random variation and statistical distributions.
• Demonstrates that conclusions based on small sample sizes can be incorrect due to random variation.
• Includes scenarios involving an uneven distribution.
• Introduces mathematical ideas underpinning uneven distributions via an on-screen tutorial.
• Automatically collates experimental results and finishes them if they require many trials.

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• mathematics

• Mathematics/Statistics and probability