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 including ‘will happen’, ‘might happen’ and ‘will not happen’ to describe these events. This unit comes complete with a presentation, worksheets, activities and assessment.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify outcomes of familiar events using ‘likely’, ‘unlikely’, ‘certain’ or ‘impossible’.
- We are learning to identify outcomes of familiar events using everyday language.
Curriculum alignment
AC9M3P01
9
Identify practical activities and everyday events involving chance; describe possible outcomes and events as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’ and identify some events as ‘certain’ or ‘impossible’ explaining reasoning
ACMSP024
8.4
Identify outcomes of familiar events involving Probability (Chance) and describe them using everyday language such as ‘will happen’, ‘won’t happen’ or ‘might happen’
MA1-1WM
old
Describes mathematical situations and methods using everyday and some mathematical language, actions, materials, diagrams and symbols
MA1-3WM
old
Supports conclusions by explaining or demonstrating how answers were obtained
MA1-18SP
old
Recognises and describes the element of chance in everyday events
MA1-CHAN-01
new
Recognises and describes the element of chance in everyday events
MA2-CHAN-01
new
Records and compares the results of chance experiments
VCMSP100
Identify outcomes of familiar events involving chance and describe them using everyday language such as ‘will happen’, ‘won’t happen’ or ‘might happen’
VCMSP125
Identify practical activities and everyday events that involve chance. Describe outcomes as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’ and identify some events as ‘certain’ or ‘impossible’
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.