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 important aspect of the Year 5 and 6 curriculum and may be difficult for students to grasp.
This sheet is part of a larger unit plan written to move students from describing chance through words, to calculating probability with numbers through a presentation, rotation games, and worksheets.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify and describe possible outcomes by conducting chance experiments and compare equally likely, e.g. names drawn randomly from a hat and not equally likely outcomes, e.g. bag of marbles containing 6 red and 2 blue.
- We are learning to identify and describe possible outcomes by conducting chance experiments and represent probabilities of these using fractions.
- We are learning to conduct chance experiments, including those with and without equally likely outcomes, record the outcomes and the number of times the outcomes occur and to describe the relative frequency of each outcome.
- We are learning to recognise that probabilities range from 0 to 1.
Curriculum alignment
AC9M5P01
9
List the possible outcomes of chance experiments involving equally likely outcomes and compare to those which are not equally likely
AC9M5P02
9
Conduct repeated chance experiments including those with and without equally likely outcomes, observe and record the results ; use frequency to compare outcomes and estimate their likelihoods
ACMSP116
8.4
List outcomes of Probability (Chance) experiments involving equally likely outcomes and represent probabilities of those outcomes using fractions
ACMSP117
8.4
Recognise that probabilities range from 0 to 1
MA3-1WM
old
Describes and represents mathematical situations in a variety of ways using mathematical terminology and some conventions
MA3-19SP
old
Conducts chance experiments and assigns probabilities as values between 0 and 1 to describe their outcomes
MA3-CHAN-01
new
Conducts chance experiments and quantifies the probability
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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