P Y2 Gumball Machine new

Ākonga will explore a chance-based investigation that emphasises the role of data organisation and clarifies ākonga understandings of key vocabulary. This lesson is for Year 2 ākonga.

This activity explores the following key ideas: 

• Engage in chance-based investigations about games and everyday situations to:
  – identify possible outcomes
  – collect and record data
  – create visualisations for frequencies of outcomes (e.g., lists, picture, graphs)
  – describe what these data visualisations show
  – answer chance-based investigative questions
  – notice variations in outcomes 

Resources

• Y2 Gumball Machine teaching notes
• A ‘gumball machine’. This may be homemade (see link),  a glass jar such as a jam jar with (30 yellow, 19 blue and 1 red) beads/pom pom balls or similar inside.  Ākonga must be able to see through the sides of the container.
• A jar for each group of ākonga.
• Beads, pompoms, or counters for each group. You may also like to use a material master sheet (gumballs).