Hands-on probability activities
Julia Crawford (Cognition Education) ran a hands-on workshop with activities to engage students and get them thinking about the big ideas in probability. Participants explored a range of probability activities … a few old favorites and new ones too.
Hands-on probability activities
The workshop handout and resources shared include:
- Six bit spinner problems (Years 5-13)
- Monty Hall problem
- Crazy animals (Years 4-6)
- Dice totals
- Release the prisoners (dice differences)
- Paper, Scissors, Rock (Years 7-8)
- Probability vocab online
- Gambling Multi-Bet (replaced with What are the chances?) (Years 7-8)
- Greedy Pig (Years 9-10)
