Egg roulette: Part 1

Smashing good fun learning about probability without replacement, by playing and exploring the game of egg roulette – 12 eggs, 3 raw and 9 cooked. Contestants take it in turns to choose an egg and smash it on their head hoping to avoid the 3 raw eggs!

In a Part 2, students consolidate and make deeper connections using simulation to address misconceptions on this abstract concept.

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Year level(s) Year 9
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Concrete Representational Abstract model, Mathematics investigation, Games and storybooks, Questioning
Keywords compound events, with and without replacement, inclusive events, exclusive events, Maths Hub lesson plan

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Critical and creative thinking
Strand and focus Probability
Topics Chance and probability
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M9P01
List all outcomes for compound events both with and without replacement, using lists, tree diagrams, tables or arrays; assign probabilities to outcomes

AC9M9P02

Calculate relative frequencies from given or collected data to estimate probabilities of events involving "and", inclusive "or" and exclusive "or"


AC9M9P03
Design and conduct repeated chance experiments and simulations, using digital tools to compare probabilities of simple events to related compound events, and describe results

Numeracy progression Understanding chance (P6)

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