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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| Organisation | Commonwealth of Australia |
| Copyright | © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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Egg roulette: Part 2
In this lesson, students consolidate and make deeper connections using simulation to address misconceptions on this abstract concept.
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Egg roulette
This video is a fun demonstration of a game of chance without replacement. This video relates to the Year 9 Probability lesson: Egg roulette: Part 1 whereby students use probabilistic reasoning to assign probabilities and solve conditional probability problems using two tables.
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