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
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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 |