The children were paired in talking partners and were asked to write statements for "certain" "likely" "unlikely" and "impossible" events. The task seemed quite straightforward to the children at first, yet posed a few challenges when they started.
"I will see the Queen later today" "I will be younger tomorrow than today"- the children thought carefully about where to place their answers.
Look at the statements above - certain? likely? unlikely? impossible?
Once we had written our statements, it was time to get together and compare our findings and discuss whether other pairs were right or wrong.
Here we can see the maths class playing "eyes shut, turn around". If they believed a statement had been correctly placed on our probability grid, they stayed still. If incorrectly placed they turned around.
Now that probability has been introduced, we will be flipping coins tomorrow and predicting the likelihood of certain outcomes.
Try this website for extra practise.
Mrs Marlow
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