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Recommended Grade: Primary
Recommended Grade: Primary
Curriculum Expectations: Data Management & Probability
Curriculum Expectations: Data Management & Probability
Learning Goal:
Learning Goal:
We are learning to pose and answer questions about collected data.
We are learning to describe the likelihood that an event will occur using mathematical language.
Required Supplies:
Required Supplies:
- image of probability di code (see image on left)
- colour tiles to represent each of the colours in your probability di
- Dot
- iPad with Blockly or Blocklify
- square colour tiles to match the colours from the code
Instructions or Directions:
Instructions or Directions:
- Ask students to look at the picture of the code above and discuss the following questions:
- Which colours could appear? (are possible)
- Which colours is most likely to appear?
- Name a colour that is impossible to appear.
- Now, have students run the code 20 times. Each time an event happens (a new colour appears), the students will choose a square tile of the same colour to gather the results.
- Ask students to organize the information they have collected.
- Have students take a picture of their organized data and share what they learned.
Reflection Questions:
Reflection Questions:
- What colour appeared the most?
- What colour appeared the least?
- Is there a colour that never appeared?
- Did anything surprised you about the colours that appeared?
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