Mathematics Year 3 Year 4 Probability (Chance)

Records and compares the results of chance experiments

Code MA2-CHAN-01

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  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    Maths Unit: Repeated Chance Experiments

    In this probability unit, your students learn about chance by completing a series of chance experiments. Students learn about outcomes throu...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Game Theories

    This presentation introduces our students to basic probability, including how to calculate it and represent it as a fraction, to John Nash’s...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    Maths Unit: Choose the Chance

    This helpful unit contains resources to help support your students to describe possible everyday events and order their chances of occurring...

  • Unit Plan Year: 1 3

    Maths Unit: All About Chance

    This unit plan has been created to support students to identify the outcomes of events involving chance and support them to use the language...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Maths Unit: All About Chance

    This comprehensive and detailed unit plan is designed to support students in their understanding of chance, that aligns with the Year 2 Aust...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4 6

    Maths Unit: Probability

    This unit teaches students to conduct repeated chance experiments using digital tools, compare expected and actual results and understand ho...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    Maths Unit: Chance and Probability

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Repeated Chance Experiments - Presentation

    During this presentation, students are introduced to the notion of chance experiments and some of the key concepts they will need to develop...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5 6

    Game Theories - Presentation

    This STEM activity is an introduction to strategic thinking for students, while at the same time, it consolidates their understanding of dat...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Choose the Chance - Presentation

    This helpful presentation supports your students to describe possible everyday events and order their chances of occurring, identify everyda...

  • Presentation Year: 1 3

    All About Chance - Presentation

    This engaging presentation has been created to support students identify the outcomes of events involving chance and support them to use the...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    All About Chance - Presentation

    This engaging presentation has been created to support students identify the outcomes of events involving chance and support them to use the...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5 6

    Farkle Dice Game Instructions

    This presentation will teach your students how to play Farkle, a fun and energetic probability dice game. The game takes only a couple of mi...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Chance and Probability - Presentation

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    1st to 20

    This final worksheet has students create their own repeated chance experiment to test new strategies for an unfamiliar game (1st to 20). In...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Understanding Outcomes

    One of the important skills that students will need to excel at probability going forward is comparing different likelihoods that can occur...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Negotiating Noughts and Crosses

    In this worksheet, students test to see whether going first makes a difference to your likelihood of winning noughts and crosses by completi...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Sorting Out Spinners

    In this worksheet, students create a spinner that fulfils a set likelihood criteria and then test their spinner out in a repeated chance exp...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Observing Chance

    In this worksheet, students make and test a series of predictions around the flipping of a coin. It helps them understand the outcomes of a...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Repeated Chance Experiments - Student Reference Card

    This student card serves as a great piece of reference material for students to understand the procedure and value of repeated chance experi...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Choose the Chance - Quiz

    Use this assessment to check your students ability to describe possible everyday events and order their chances of occurring.Β  Β 

  • Resource Year: 4

    Chance Experiment

    This handy worksheet supports your students to identify events where the chance of one will not be affected by the occurrence of the other....

  • Resource Year: 4

    Chance Cheetahs Game

    A great resource for fast finishers and pairs, students play the board game by reading the chance events and answering the questions about t...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Choices about Chance

    This handy worksheet supports your students to identify everyday events where one cannot happen if the other happens.Β  Β 

  • Resource Year: 4

    Chance Challenge

    A great resource for groups and fast finishers, students pick a chance card one at a time and place it on the corresponding likelihood on th...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Check the Chance

    This handy worksheet supports your students to categorise events as likely, unlikely and equally likely. Students cut the events on Page 2 a...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Chance Choices

    This handy worksheet supports your students to categorise events as likely, unlikely and equally likely.Β  Β 

  • Resource Year: 4

    Choose The Chance - Student Reference Card

    This handy student reference card can be given to each student to help them order events using the chance terminology required at a Year 4 l...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Choose the Chance Display

    Display this handy poster in your class and help them order events using the chance terminology required at a Year 4 level.Β  Β 

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    All About Chance Quiz

    Use this handy assessment tool to check your students’ understanding of the concept of chance and their ability toΒ identify outcomes of fami...

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    Chance Choices

    This worksheet supports students to familiarise themselves with the concept of chance. They use chance language including will happen, will...

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    What Is The Chance?

    This worksheet supports students to familiarise themselves with the concept of chance. They use chance language including will happen, will...

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    All About Chance - Student reference Card

    These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference for when exploring...

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    All About Chance Display

    This poster has been created to support students understand the concept of chance and correctly use the terms β€˜ will happen’, β€˜might happen’...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Chance Choice Quiz

    Use this handy assessment tool to check your students’ understanding of the concept of chance and their ability to identify outcomes of fami...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Chance with Chase

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning about chance and has been designed as an extension activity. Students classify each eve...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Chance Challenge

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning about chance and has been designed as an extension activity. Students represent each ev...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Choose With Chad

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning chance terminology. Students choose the best likelihood for each event displayed based...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Choose the Chance

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning chance terminology. Students choose the best likelihood for each event displayed. They...

  • Resource Year: 2

    All About Chance - Student Reference Card

    These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference for when exploring...

  • Resource Year: 2

    All About Chance Display

    This poster has been created to support students to understand the concept of chance and correctly use the terms β€˜impossible’, β€˜unlikely’, β€˜...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    The Pirate Prison Problem Game

    In this game, students (playing the part of pirate captains) have to develop a strategy using the probability of 2 dice, to free their pirat...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Probability Stations

    Probability stations is a team game for students to put their probability knowledge to the test. They travel to a set of stations and answer...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Counting Combinations

    Many of the probability games we play involve the probability of two dice, which is a concept that students can sometimes struggle with. Thi...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Playing Card Probability

    Though students focus on equally likely outcomes in Year 5, this worksheet shows them that there can be multiple equally likely outcomes tha...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Probability as a Fraction

    This worksheet helps students consolidate their understanding of how to form fractions to describe mathematical probability. This resource...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Farkle Dice Game Score Sheet

    This is the score sheet for Farkle a fun and energetic probability dice game. The game takes only a couple of minutes to learn, but be warne...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Probability Match Game

    This game helps Year 6 students practise converting probabilities into fractions, decimals and percentages. Players take turns rolling dice,...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Achi Chance Game

    Achi is a strategy game from Ghana and is a more advanced form of noughts and crosses. Players take turns putting their markers on a 3x3 boa...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Probability Review

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Resource Year: 3 5 6

    Theoretical Probability

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Pulling it Out of the Bag

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Sussing Out Spinners

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Playing Pig

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Rolling Dice

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Heads or Tails Challenge

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Heads or Tails?

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Chance and Probability - Student Reference Card

    This item was created as part of a larger unit on Chance and Probability for Year 3. This unit progressively walks your students through the...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    River Race

    River Race is a game designed to teach students about chance through rolling a pair of dice. Students discover the probability of different...

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    Weather Sentence Sort

    Students will identify outcomes of familiar weather events involving chance and describe them using everyday language such as β€˜will happen’,...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Possible or Impossible

    'Possible or Impossible' is a game created to support students describing an outcome as possible or impossible. Β  Photograph completed wor...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Likely Unlikely Certain Impossible Sort

    Students will sort statements into the categories of 'Likely', Β 'Unlikely', 'Certain' or 'Impossible'.

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Flip a Pig

    In 'Flip a Pig', students will conduct chance experiments to investigate the concept of chance, and how certain outcomes can be likely or un...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Farmhouse Number Race Game - A game of chance

    The 'Farmhouse Number Race Game - A game of chance' incorporates the concept of place value as students use the toss of dice to move forward...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Alien Invasion

    Alien Invasion was created for middle primary as a game of chance, designed to teach students to recognise the element of chance in everyday...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Flip a Sheep - Randomness

    Flip the sheep coin ten times, each time adding a black or white sheep to the paddock. As you play, record the number of white and black she...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Carmela the Chameleon - Probability

    Carmela the Chameleon likes to change colour many times each day. What will be herΒ most popular colour today? Students will discover the...

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