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Ākonga will investigate the probability behind rolling two dice in a class game of Addition Bingo. They will anticipate likely outcomes, carry out a chance-based investigation by collecting and analysing results, and then explore the theoretical model to understand why some numbers appear more often than others.
This activity is based on “Biased Bingo” from the IMPACT (Inquiry Maths Pedagogy in Action) website.
This activity explores the following key ideas:
- engage in chance-based investigations, including those with not equally likely outcomes, by:
- posing an investigative question
- anticipating and then identifying possible outcomes for the investigative question
- generating all possible ways to get each outcome (a theoretical approach), or undertaking a probability experiment and recording the occurrences of each outcome
- creating data visualisations for possible outcomes
- describing what these visualisations show
- finding probabilities as fractions
- answering the investigative question
- reflecting on anticipated outcomes
- compare findings from the probability experiment and associated theoretical probabilities, if the theoretical model exists
- identify, explain, and check others’ statements about chance-based investigations, referring to evidence.
