Learning objects Experimental probability

TLF ID M012005

This is an interactive resource that enables students to conduct virtual probability experiments using a spinner or a pair of dice. The student can manipulate the relative sizes of the different coloured segments of the spinner or the numbers on the faces of the dice to investigate the effect of these changes on probability. The outcome of each trial is recorded clearly in a table of tally marks and cumulative numerical values. The Help tab, which can easily be accessed from the Activity screen, provides detailed and useful information about how the activity can be varied, including how to change the type of spinner or dice.





Educational details

Educational value
  • This interactive resource is useful for the Australian Curriculum content description in year 6 mathematics about conducting chance experiments using digital technologies. It provides students with the opportunity to generate a set of probability data from random events and to conduct a large number of trials in a short space of time.
  • The resource supports students exploring the frequency of a particular event when the likelihood of the outcome is manipulated.
Year level

6

Learning area
  • Mathematics

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Shodor Education Foundation\, Inc.
  • Organization: Shodor Education Foundation\, Inc.
  • Address: UNITED STATES
  • URL: http://www.shodor.org/
  • Publisher
  • Name: Shodor Education Foundation\, Inc.
  • Organization: Shodor Education Foundation\, Inc.
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: UNITED STATES
  • URL: http://www.shodor.org/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Unknown
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © Shodor Education Foundation, Inc .This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/.