P Y6 The Great Sausage Flip: A Probability BBQ new
Ākonga will investigate a simple situation (a coin-flip “build-your-own-sausage” model) that involves elements of chance by comparing experimental results with expectations from models of all the outcomes, acknowledging that samples vary.
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.
