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Who Plays What?

Submitted by Frances Neill on Sun, 10/12/2008 - 18:21
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This is a problem from the Statistics strand.

Level One > Statistics
Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: Investigate situations that involve elements of chance, acknowledging and anticipating possible outcomes.

Greedy Pig

Submitted by Sarah Thomas on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 21:47
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This activity provides students with a fun, game context in which to practice their addition skills.  It also introduces concepts of probability.

Level Two > Number and Algebra
Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: Know the basic addition and subtraction facts.

Breakfast Biscuits

Submitted by Frances Neill on Sun, 10/05/2008 - 16:22
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This unit seeks to connect learning outcomes across all five content strands, number, geometry, statistics, and measurement. However the context lends itself strongly to use of measurement and statistics. In the unit students investigate questions that involve them in experiment design, data collection and display, and drawing conclusions from data. Students investigate the measurements of breakfast biscuits, how much milk they absorb, how strong they are and the hidden truth about collecting cards

Level Four > Geometry and Measurement
Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: Use appropriate scales, devices, and metric units for length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), temperature, angle, and time.
Achievement Objective: Relate three-dimensional models to two-dimensional representations, and vice versa.
Achievement Objective: Investigate situations that involve elements of chance by comparing experimental distributions with expectations from models of the possible outcomes, acknowledging variation and independence.

An Investigation of Random Processes

Submitted by Frances Neill on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 22:51
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This unit aims to provide students with an experience of randomness. This is done by a related set of activities that link large sequences of tossing coins, random walks, Pascal's Triangle, and probabilities that are a little too complicated for probability trees.

Level Six > Statistics
Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: Investigate situations that involve elements of chance: comparing discrete theoretical distributions and experimental distributions, appreciating the role of sample size; calculating probabilities in discrete situations.

Probability Distributions

Submitted by Frances Neill on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 22:39
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This unit aims to introduce students to concepts that are important in probability.The emphasis should be on working slowly taking the time to let the students grasp the ideas that underlie the activities presented. All the ideas are important as a base for future learning in this area of mathematics.

Level Five > Statistics
Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: Compare and describe the variation between theoretical and experimental distributions in situations that involve elements of chance.
Achievement Objective: Calculate probabilities, using fractions, percentages, and ratios.

Fair Games

Submitted by Frances Neill on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 22:31
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Many games of chance and activities in maths text books involve rolling two dice and combining the scores, usually by addition.Students often find the probabilities of such events difficult to calculate as they are confused between events (eg a score of 4) and outcomes (eg 3 and 1, 2 and 2, 1 and 3).This unit makes use of a variety of activities where the number of outcomes in the sample space is clearly different from the number of events.

Level Five > Statistics
Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: Compare and describe the variation between theoretical and experimental distributions in situations that involve elements of chance.
Achievement Objective: Calculate probabilities, using fractions, percentages, and ratios.


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