Probability Scale

Learning Intention: apply probability terms to real life examples.

Diagnostic:

Explanation:

Probability is a measurement of the chance or likelihood of an event happening.

Example:

Tasks:

1) Put the words below in order from 'most unlikely to happen' to 'most likely to happen':

unlikely, likely, possible, probable, impossible, very likely, certain, poor chance, 50-50 chance, good chance

2) Write a true sentence for each of the listed words i.e. "It is very likely the All Blacks will win the next World Cup"

Diagnostic answers:

1/4, 1/8, 1/6, 1/3, 2/4, 2/8, 2/6, 2/3, 6/8, 3/8.

3/4, 2/4, 2/5, 4/7, 5/8, 7/10, 7/7, 4/9, 0, 6/15