P Y3 Whano whano new

Ākonga will take turns playing this chance-based traditional Māori game, incorporating key vocabulary while anticipating outcomes. They need to play the game several times before undertaking statistical thinking. This game has potential for inclusion in everyday class interactions to build fitness, whakawhanaungatanga and to strengthen mental dexterity. 

This activity explores the following key ideas: 

• Engage in chance-based investigations about games and everyday situations to:
  – anticipate and then 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

• Y3 Whano whano teaching notes
• How to play Whano whano instructions
• If you wish to play an alternative version you can begin with two movement options only and then build up to selecting from the four moves once confident with the way to play the game.  The full game is needed for this probability lesson.
• This Scratch Garden Mini Maths Movie video shows how to record using a tally chart
• Large paper and vivids for making a class table
• Paper or something for ākonga to record their results in 
• Optional – counters to represent the different possible outcomes