P Y5 Dice Detectives: Fact versus Fiction new
This lesson provides ākonga with a playful context to evaluate other’s statements about a chance-based investigation. Ākonga will test claims that some people hold about rolling standard dice and lucky rolls by undertaking a probability experiment and reflecting on anticipated outcomes, discovering that the outcomes for rolling one dice are equally probable.
This lesson plan uses dice for the singular rather than die. It is based upon a lesson “Dice Misconceptions” written by Pip Arnold, based on an idea from Alan Graham’s (2009, p.57) book Developing thinking in Statistics.
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
