The Probability Games

In this activity, students begin with an exercise designed to illustrate how curiosity, observation, imagination and resilience can help you predict the likelihood of certain events taking place. In a follow-up series of activities, they apply this understanding to explore how likely it is that someone in the class has a name which appears in the top ten baby’s names in the year of their birth, that someone in the class has the same name as one of their classmates’ brothers and sisters, and that one of their classmates will be absent the following day.

• Understanding how to calculate probabilities from the evidence available (and when an accurate probability cannot be calculated).

• Understanding the relevance of probability to their lives.

• Computational skills in calculating probabilities

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

• Generate and play with ideas to envision how to solve math problems

• Appraise and review thinking, acknowledge uncertainty, consider alternative perspectives, and reflect on steps taken 

Web and Print

• Access to the web to research the 10 most popular names in the year you were born 

Other

• Table of days on which at least one child was absent since the beginning of the academic year

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ad-3XoJpAOnbHmaDTtiAatisAhjTYv2BNt7bCRNxVsE/edit?usp=sharing 

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MSQPCTUPI6odgIb8PvVwTlvmeVymuS-I4muQkT6P1h8/edit?usp=sharing 

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KVZTE8VtJVrwJ0t8pem5FVItHx26stufU7V8DIWSksY/edit?usp=sharing 

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mT2TzupvKQHNKGVA1d40f5BwfwOJlf8vJWjKVFkIPNQ/edit?usp=drive_link