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Foreword Chance and statistics play an important part in today's society. People are placed in chance situations all the time and meet statistics wherever they turn. This book is designed to give students a relative and practical introduction into these two areas of mathematics.

All activities have been based on experiences familiar to children. Each activity can be extended to provide more difficult situations or problems.

Remember the old problem: If I have thrown ten 'heads' in a row, what are the chances of throwing the eleventh 'head'?

What is the children's response to this question?

Objectives: Lower Primary Pages

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Play games based on chance

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Use chance to generate numbers

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Collect data for recording

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Contents 1. Amazing Dice

13. Eye Colours

2. Noughts and Crosses

14. Car Colours

3. Coloured Squares

15. Months and Height

4. Square Lines

16. Birthdays

5. Circle Maze

17. House Numbers

6. Counter Target

18. Pets

7. Dice Target

19. Away

8. Dice Numbers

20. Favourite Cakes

9. Two Dice

21. Bar Graph Master 1

10. Domino Pick Up

22. Bar Graph Master 2

11. Pet Colours

23. Graph Master 1

12. Hair Colours

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Amazing Dice

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With a partner, throw a die. Move only if you throw a 1, 3 or 6.

Try to find your way through the maze and win.

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Noughts and Crosses

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Throw a die to move around the board. If you land on a nought, move ahead two spaces. If you land on a cross, move back two spaces. Can you beat your partner?

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Coloured Squares

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With a partner, throw a die. If you throw more than a three, colour in a square. After five minutes, count the squares each person has coloured.

The winner is the person who has coloured the most squares.

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Square Lines

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With a partner, throw a die. If you throw less than a four, colour in a square. The winner is the first person to make a line of six squares going across or down the page.

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Circle Maze

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Throw a die with your partner and see who can find a way into the circle maze first. If you land on a shaded square, go ahead an extra two places.

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Counter Target

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Throw a counter onto the target five times.

Add up the total score.

If the counter crosses a line, count the larger number.

What is the highest score you could get?

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Dice Target

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Throw two dice. You must try to throw the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12. When you throw any of these numbers, colour in a part of your target. But, you can only use a number once!

How many throws did it take you to colour in the whole target?

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Dice Numbers

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Throw a die.

Colour in a box under the number you throw.

Do this forty times.

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Which number was thrown most often?

Compare with a friend.

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Two Dice

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Throw two dice and add them together.

What is the total?

Do this twenty times.

Colour in a matching square for each answer.

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Which number was thrown most often?

Can you explain why?

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Domino Pick Up

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Pick up ten dominoes, one at a time, from a pack.

Colour in a matching box each time you pick up a number.

Which number came up most often?

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Try this activity several times.

Are the results the same each time?

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Pet Colours

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What colours are the pets belonging to the children in your class? Colour in a box for each pet's colour. Some children may have more than one pet, or a pet may be more than one colour.

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Which colour is most common?

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Hair Colours

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How many children in your class have:

blonde hair?

black hair?

brown hair?

red hair?

Colour the boxes below to show the answers.

Each box shows one person's hair.

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Eye Colours

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How many children in your class have:

blonde eyes?

green eyes?

brown eyes?

other colours?

Colour the boxes below to show the answers.

Each box shows one person's eye colour.

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Car Colours

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What colour is your family's car/cars?

Tally your results in the boxes below.

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Which was the most popular colour?

Is there a reason for this?

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Months and Height

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Measure your height at the end of every month and graph your results.

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Height in Centimetres

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In which month did you grow the most?

How much did you grow during the year?

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Birthdays

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Graph the number of people born in each month of the year in your class.

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Which month has the greatest number of birthdays?

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House Numbers

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What is your house number?

What are the house numbers of the children in your group?

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2. Which digit is used least?

3. What is the largest house number?

4. What is the smallest house number?

5. How many '1s' are there in all the house numbers?

6. Take the smallest house number from the largest.

What is the difference?

7. Are there any consecutive house numbers?

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Pets

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Below is a bar graph that shows the number of pets the children in Sunny Beach Year 3 class have.

Can you answer the questions below?

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Which animal is the most popular pet?

Which animal is the least popular pet?

How many animals are owned by the class?

Put the pets in order from most popular to least popular.

How many dogs and cats are there?

How many birds and rabbits are there?

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Away

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Below is a graph that shows the number of children away in the first six months of a Year 2 class at Sunny Beach School.

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Which months had the lowest number of children away?

In which month were the most children away?

How many days were the children away altogether?

How many children have been away in your class so far this month and how many were away last month?

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Favourite Cakes

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Below is a PIE GRAPH showing children's favourite cakes.

Can you answer the questions below?

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Which is the most popular type of cake?

Which is the least popular cake?

Order the cakes from most popular to least popular.

Why do you think this type of graph is called a 'pie' graph?

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Bar Graph Master 1

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Graph Master 1

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