Why Dice, Spinners and Graphs?
These three resources all help develop the students understanding of chance and probability and the language used to describe an object or situations probability. Words like likely, unlikely, certain and impossible are all learning progression points necessary for students successful development in this area of maths. The graph in a simple bar format with few variables also makes it simple for the students to fill in and take information from.
Today's Lesson Theme is
Chance, Data & Probability
AusVels Level 1 Achievement Standard
Statistics and Probability
Students sort familiar categorical data into sets and use these to answer yes/no questions and make simple true/false statements about the data. Identify practical activities and everyday events that involve chance. Describe outcomes as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’ and identify some events as ‘certain’ or ‘impossible’ (ACMSP047)
Great Quotes
"A teacher is only as good as his/her resource kits."
-Samson Fox 2013-
MATHS
Naughty and Dice
Resource Sharing Presentation
The dice is not set one way, you can alter the rules and change the situation to force the probability of an outcome in either direction. For example the probability of landing on an even number when rolling the dice would have equal chance but then by changing the rules to apply to more numbers like if the dice lands on a number in the 2 times tables. Then with 1, 2, 4 and 6 your probability of landed on one of these numbers goes from equal chance to likely chance. The range of options means you can change the odds and questions to suit each students learning ability and incorporate different levels of challenging math in your questions.