Probability types of events activity1

Activity - Demonstrate elementary and compound events

Process (How to do the activity)

1. Divide class into three activities. Children into groups of 2/3 but different groups.
2. Experiments include:
   1. tossing two coin and recording the results
   2. rolling two dice and record the number of times each number comes up
   3. pulling out a red/ green/ blue pencil from a collection of colour pencils; two groups document this together
   4. extend this example by changing the number of red/green/blue pencils to be not equal in the collection

Developmental Questions (What discussion questions)

1. Make a tree diagram from the same example. Define the probability of an event
2. Work with the table on Page 103 of the text book

Activity Keywords

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