Probability types of events activity1

=Activity - Demonstrate elementary and compound events=

Process (How to do the activity)

 * 1) Divide class into three activities. Children into groups of 2/3 but different groups.
 * 2) Experiments include:
 * 3) tossing two coin and recording the results
 * 4) rolling two dice and record the number of times each number comes up
 * 5) pulling out a red/ green/ blue pencil from a collection of colour pencils; two groups document this together
 * 6) extend this example by changing the number of red/green/blue pencils to be not equal in the collection

Developmental Questions (What discussion questions)

 * 1) Make a tree diagram from the same example. Define the probability of an event
 * 2) Work with the table on Page 103 of the text book

Activity Keywords
To link back to the concept page probability