Problem-Solving Strategies & Skills – Statistics & Chance: Year 3

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Breakfast foods eaten this week CEREAL

FRUIT

Brayden Holly Justin Karrie Poppy

Hugh Zakia Luca Francis

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Which children ate two different foods for breakfast?

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Breakfast foods eaten this week CEREAL

FRUIT

Brayden Holly Justin Karrie Poppy

Hugh Zakia Luca Francis

PORRIDGE

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Two more children joined the survey. Toby had Wheatie Flakes for breakfast all week, except for Sunday when he had eggs. Taylor had croissants one day and a banana and apple on the other days. Which category is the most popular and by how many?

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Kris and Kate are playing a game by rolling a six-sided dice, numbered 1–6, and recording the results. Kris wins if the number rolled is © R. I .

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Who is more likely to win?

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Kris and Kate are playing a game by rolling a six-sided dice, numbered 1–6, and recording the results.

Kris wins if the number rolled is higher than 4.

Kate wins if she rolls a number that is lower than 4.

These are the results so far:

Kris Kate

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Who is more likely to win the next roll and why?

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Favourite technology used at home by Orange Class and Purple Class at Graves Primary School

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Which technology is used more than a laptop but less than a computer tablet?

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Favourite technology used at home by Orange Class and Purple Class at Graves Primary School

Technology

Smartphone

From: Messages

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What is the difference in the number of children who use either a laptop or a smartphone, compared to those who use either a desktop computer or a computer tablet?

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Type of biscuits sold

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How many chocolate-chip biscuits were sold at the weekend?

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Type of biscuits sold

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How many more chocolate-chip biscuits were sold at the weekend compared to shortbread biscuits?

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Abdul’s mother has given him a shopping list for the local supermarket.

Which of the categories listed above will he NOT need to visit in the store?

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Abdul’s mother has given him a shopping list for the local supermarket. Which of the categories listed above will he NOT need to visit in the store?

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A six-sided dice was rolled 10 times with the following results: Roll 1

Roll 2

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Roll 5

Roll 6

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Is an even number most likely, less likely or equally likely to be rolled next?

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A six-sided dice was rolled 10 times with the following results: Roll 1

Roll 2

Roll 3

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Roll 5

Roll 6

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If you roll a dice 10 times, can you be certain that you will roll an odd number at least once?

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Ten children were playing a game of ‘Spin the bottle’.

The children sat in a circle and the teacher spun the bottle and recorded which person the bottle pointed to when it stopped spinning.

How many times did the teacher Mia spin the bottle? Who is it certain © R. I .

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Chase Fleur Katrina

Isabelle Jude Benjamin Bertie Jemima

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Ten children were playing a game of ‘Spin the bottle’.

The children sat in a circle and the teacher spun the bottle and recorded which person the bottle pointed to when it stopped spinning.

Five children joined in the game.

Mia Are the chances of the bottle © R. I .

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Fleur Katrina

Isabelle Jude Benjamin Bertie Jemima

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Statistics and chance Circus attendance

Number of people

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100 50 0

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Days of the week

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What is the difference between the number of adults who attended the circus on Sunday and the number of children who attended on Saturday?

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Circus attendance

300 Number of people

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Key

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What is the difference between the number of children who attended the circus at the weekend and the number of adults who attended at the weekend?

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Hector surveyed 15 people in his class about their favourite sport.

Penny - baseball Ying - netball Lars - rugby Matilda - football Angelo - football

Harlow - tennis Petra - cricket Callum - basketball © R. I .

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Christian - rugby Aiden - baseball Ciara - cricket Alfie - basketball Maeve - tennis

Which sport is the most popular?

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Hector surveyed 15 people in his class about their favourite sport.

Penny - baseball Ying - netball Lars - rugby Matilda - football Angelo - football

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Christian - rugby Aiden - baseball Ciara - cricket Alfie - basketball Maeve - tennis

What is the difference between the number of children who enjoy playing cricket or baseball compared to the number of children who enjoy playing netball or basketball?

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Nora and Dora tell very exciting tales. Nora says that after school she is going to board a spacecraft and visit her alien friend Klax. Dora says that after school she is going to visit a clown and learn how to juggle.

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Nora, Dora and Lora tell very exciting tales. Nora says that after school she is going to board a spacecraft and visit her alien friend Klax. Dora says that after school she is going to basketball training and then home for dinner.

Lora says that she is going to visit a clown and learn how to juggle.

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Combining the results of both spinners, which colour was landed on the most?

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Which spinner landed on green the most and by how many more? Which spinner has more chance of landing on green?

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Weekly rainfall in Paris Day of the week Rainfall (mm)

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Which two days had a total of 45 mm of rain?

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Weekly rainfall in Paris Day of the week Rainfall (mm)

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How much rain did Paris receive over the week and which day was most likely the sunniest?

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Statistics and chance Weather report for Bainsbridge

Monday Tuesday Mike thinks the chance of snow on Saturday is highly likely. Kali thinks Wednesday that it is nearly impossible for it to be © R .

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Who is most likely to be wrong?

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Weather report for Bainsbridge

Monday Mike thinks the chance of snow on Tuesday Tuesday is unlikely and the chance of a storm on Friday is highly likely.

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Who is most likely to be wrong?

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Statistics and chance Birthday list January

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June

Elsie

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Marc

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Thomas

Brodie

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Nell

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What is the difference between the number of people who have a birthday in the most popular month compared to the number of people who have a birthday in either May or June?

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Statistics and chance Birthday list January

February

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June

Elsie

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Five other children need to add their names to the list. Twins Jai and James were born in June, Kade was born in February, Wendy was born in April and Lucy was born in May. Which month has the most birthdays and by how many?

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The local community centre was raising money by selling tickets in a raffle. There were 250 tickets available. Basil purchased one ticket, Samara purchased 18 tickets, Taj ©R .

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•f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• Write the order, from most likely to least likely, of who in this group could win the raffle.

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The local community centre was raising money by selling tickets in a raffle.

There were 250 tickets available. Basil purchased 10 tickets, Samara purchased 11 tickets, Taj bought 17 and Suki © R. I .

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Which person is most likely to win the raffle?

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Statistics and chance Favourite superheroes of Class 3R Superheroes

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How many more children voted for Captain America and Spider-Man combined than voted for Green Hornet?

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Which other superheroes combined received the same number of votes as Green Hornet and Wonder Woman combined?

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Julian places the following letter tiles into a bag.

He randomly picks one letter out at a time, writes it down and then returns the tile to the bag.

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Julian places the following letter tiles into a bag. He picks one letter out at a time, without looking, and then writes down the letter before returning the tile to the bag.

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Is he more likely to select the letters that make up the word 'cat' or the letters that make up the word 'dot'? Can he be certain that he will be able to make a word after selecting 3 tiles?

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Statistics and chance Colour of cars reported in accidents in May Red

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How many accidents involved blue, red or black cars?

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What is the difference between the number of red, silver or black cars involved in accidents and the number of green, blue or white cars involved in accidents?

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Statistics and chance Number of minutes of TV watched 120

Jamie recorded the amount of time he spent watching television.

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Jamie recorded the amount of time he spent watching TV after school.

Number of minutes of TV watched 120

Time (minutes)

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Which two days would these be?

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Every morning, Alicia and her sister Alexa randomly select a pair of socks to wear from their own sock drawers. Alicia has three pairs of spotted socks, ten pairs of blue socks, eight pairs of striped socks and no pink socks. Alexa R. I .

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Which type of sock do they have an equal chance of selecting at random?

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Marvin the Magician is showing Blair, Kylie and Boris some card tricks. He draws four cards randomly from the deck of 52 cards, and pulls out four aces! He puts the cards back into the deck and draws four more cards randomly and gets four kings. Marvin announces that next he is going to © R. I .

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Kylie says, ‘He had the best chance of drawing four kings’.

Boris states, ‘He had the best chance of drawing four red cards’.

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Four children were in a hot dog eating competition.

If the competition organisers made 100 hot dogs, how many hot dogs were left over after the competition?

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Kaitlyn is sorting through her wardrobe and trying to get it 5 T-shirts organised before the school 7 dresses holidays are over. She wrote 9 miniskirts 5 pairs of trousers down the following items, but 1 tutu © R .

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How many more or less skirts does Kaitlyn have in total, compared to pairs of shoes in total?

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Kaitlyn is sorting through her wardrobe and trying to get it organised before the school holidays are over. She wrote down the following items.

5 T-shirts

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Number of jelly beans

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Which colour has three fewer jelly beans in a packet than green jelly beans?

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Which coloured jelly bean has the same amount in two packets as the number of blue and black jelly beans in one packet?

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Zack is making a fruit salad. He cuts one banana into 5 pieces, one apple into 18 pieces, one peach into 8 pieces and one pear into 16 pieces.

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They each up their fruit salad in •f o rr ev i ew mix pur p os eso nl y• their own bowls and scoop out a spoonful to eat.

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Brayden, Zakia and Justin Cereal, by one Kate Kate, because she has more numbers to win with (1, 2 or 3), compared to Kris (5 or 6).

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Smartphone 0, No difference

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17 biscuits 4 more chocolatechip biscuits

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Frozen; Meat, seafood and deli Fruits and vegetables

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4 times; equally likely Odd; No

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14; it is not certain that the bottle will land Less chance

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50 50

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Basketball 1 child

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Monday and Wednesday 190 mm; Saturday

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Tayla Sara

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3 more people January; by 1 person

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Suki, Samara, Taj, Basil Suki

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Supergirl, Captain America and Batman

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card, city, code cat; no

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146 accidents 45 cars

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Dora Nora, Lora, Dora

No, you would expect red as altogether there are three red sections on the spinners.

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Favourite TV shows are most likely on Friday; Football training most likely on Monday

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Spotted socks Pink socks

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Harry No, there are the same amount of children

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52 members 250 members

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Blair Kylie

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Nils and Siobhan 60 hot dogs

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1 more skirt 31 tops, 13 skirts, 6 shorts, 5 trousers, 12 shoes, 7 dresses, 3 coats

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Less chance (d), (a), (b), (c)

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black green

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apple Caleb; No

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