Mathematics Year 5 Year 6 Probability (Chance)

Conducts chance experiments and assigns probabilities as values between 0 and 1 to describe their outcomes

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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 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: 5

    Maths Unit: Probability

    This unit plan was written to move students from describing chance through words, to calculating probability with numbers through a presenta...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Probability - Presentation

    This presentation teaches students to conduct repeated chance experiments, run digital simulations, and compare results with expected probab...

  • 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: 5

    Conducting Repeated Chance Experiments - Presentation

    In this presentation, students will learn about conducting repeated chance experiments, including those with and without equally likely outc...

  • 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: 5

    Understanding Chance - Presentation

    This presentation introduces students to how probability can be described mathematically using fractions. The presentation will walk your st...

  • 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...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Probability Grading Rubric

    This grading rubric provides a comprehensive assessment tool for evaluating Year 6 students' understanding of probability concepts. It cover...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Probability Assessment

    This post-assessment evaluates Year 6 students' understanding of probability concepts through digital simulations of rolling a die. It inclu...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Probability Quiz

    This quiz resource includes 10 questions testing Year 6 students' understanding of probability and repeated chance experiments. It covers mu...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Simulating Chance Experiments

    This resource guides students through using digital simulations to explore probability. It includes two levels of worksheets for simulating...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Repeated Chance Experiments

    This worksheet guides students through repeated chance experiments, including coin tossing and using spinners, to compare experimental resul...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Rolling the Dice

    This engaging worksheet helps Year 6 students explore probability using a 6-sided dice. It guides them through calculating probabilities for...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Estimating Probability

    This resource helps students estimate the probability of everyday events by assigning percentages. Students convert these estimates into fra...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Introduction to Probability

    This worksheet introduces Year 6 students to probability by classifying events as certain, likely, equal choice, unlikely, or impossible and...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Probability Pre-Assessment

    This pre-assessment helps gauge Year 6 students' understanding of repeated chance experiments, using digital tools to compare expected and a...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Probability - Student Reference Card

    This probability student reference card provides clear definitions of key probability terms, including probability, relative frequency, and...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Probability - Display

    This resource contains a series of posters for Year 6 students, covering key probability concepts. It highlights how probabilities are descr...

  • 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...

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    Maths Unit: Conducting Repeated Chance Experiments

    In this unit, students will learn about conducting repeated chance experiments, including those with and without equally likely outcomes. Th...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Chance Experiments - Assessment Task

    This 2 part assessment is a great way to assess learning from the Year 5 Conducting Repeated Chance Experiments Unit.Β  In Part 1 students...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Probability Spinners

    These spinners can be used in a number of situations and are a great way to compare probability between equal and unequal outcomes. There...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Marble Pull

    This worksheet with included answer key, explores the concept of equal and unequal chance outcomes using a bag of marbles. No materials are...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Equal and Unequal Dice

    This chance experiment lets students see the difference between equally likely and unequally likely outcomes. Have students complete both ex...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Coin Flip Comparisons

    When a coin is tossed it has an equal probability of landing heads side up or tails side up. What happens when you flip a coin 20 times in a...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Playing Card Chance

    This activity uses a deck of playing cards to estimate the probability of a certain outcome. Have students complete this activity with a par...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Chance Experiments - Student Reference Cards

    Use these student reference cards as a simple reference for determining the probability of equal and unequal outcomes. Β 

  • Resource Year: 5

    Conducting Repeated Chance Experiments Poster

    This classroom display poster explains equal and unequal repeated chance experiments. It is a handy reference for the Conducting Repeated Ch...

  • 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

    Probability Quiz

    This quiz will help you check your students’ understanding and serve as a good summative assessment piece for Year 5 probability. It can als...

  • 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

    Spinner Winner

    In this worksheet, students colour spinners to reflect a set of probabilities. They get more difficult as they progress and will involve som...

  • 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

    A Range of Probabilities

    This worksheet helps students understand how probability can be visualised on a continuum between 0 (impossible) and 1(certain). This is an...

  • 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: 5

    Chance Review

    This worksheet is designed to both refresh students on the year 3 chance concepts and serve as a piece of formative assessment for you at th...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Probability as Number - Student Reference Card

    This card was designed to be a personal reference for your students, walking them through how to create a fraction to represent a mathematic...

  • 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: 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...

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