Loaded dice
Students conduct chance experiments, record data into a frequency table and represent data using a column graph.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Concrete Representational Abstract model, Culturally responsive pedagogies |
| Keywords | RAMR, YuMi Deadly Mathematics |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Probability |
| Topics | Chance and probability, Data representation and interpretation |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6P02
Conduct repeated chance experiments and run simulations with an increasing number of trials using digital tools; compare observations with expected results and discuss the effect on variation of increasing the number of trials |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding chance (P4)
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| Organisation | Queensland University of Technology |
| Copyright | © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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