Semester 1 Topic 8 Level F

Task Name : Spinner Game Task Level : F (Grade 5)
Semester : 1 Topic : Chance VC Strand : Chance
Web Address : http://maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au/chanceF
Equipment Needed : Cardboard and thumbtacks for making the spinner
Victorian Curriculum outcome : List outcomes of chance experiments involving equally likely outcomes and represent probabilities of those outcomes using fractions. Recognise that probabilities range from 0 to 1.
Task description : Having completed Level E, students analyse their game by spinning their spinner a minimum of fifty times and recording the results in a table. The table should also include the probability of each event as a fraction, percentage, and a decimal. Students should then graph their results of their fifty spins.
Assessment options : Photograph of spinner; handwritten table/digital equivalent
Teacher notes :
Downloads : spinner template