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Here are some specific activities, investigations or visual aids we have picked out. Click anywhere in the grey area to access the resource. The options may go beyong the scope of this level of the Functional Skills requirements.

• Probability Words A visual aid to highlight the vocabulary of probability and to debate the relationship between the given words.
• Probability Washing Line Hang out the washing on the line so that the probability words on the t-shirts are in order.
• Pin Drop Estimate the probability of a drawing pin landing point up from experimental data.
• Likelihood Arrange some statements in order according to the probability of them happening. Compare your opinion with thousands of others.
• Probability Video A reminder of how to work out basic probability leading to simple combined events and expected values.
• Probability Basic probability questions in an online exercise.
• Dice Investigation Throw two dice and multiply the scores. Investigate the different products you can obtain. What about adding? What about using three dice?
• Snail Race Projectable Twelve snails have a race based on the sum of two dice. This is the teachers' version of the race simulation.
• Two Dice Possibility Space An interactive visual aid showing the possibility space obtained when throwing two dice
• Snail Race A race between 12 snails. Which snail is most likely to win? This is the students' version of the race simulation.
• Dice Bingo Choose your own numbers for your bingo card. The caller uses two dice and adds the numbers together.
• The Maths of Gambling Gambling is never a good idea and this activity might help you understand the mathematics involved.

Here are some exam-style questions on this statement:

• "Derren thinks he is a mind reader and can tell what Paige is thinking. An experiment was conducted to test this." ... more
• "During a demonstration for Year 10 pupils a biased coin in a computer simulation landed on heads 600 times." ... more

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Here is an Advanced Starter on this statement:

• Best Dice
  Which of the unusual dice would you choose to give you the best chance of winning the prize? more

Click on a topic below for suggested lesson Starters, resources and activities from Transum.

• Probability Probability is a measure of the weight of evidence, and is arrived at through reasoning and inference. In simple terms it is a measure or estimation of likelihood of the occurrence of an event. The word probability comes from the Latin word probabilitas which is a measure of the authority of a witness in a legal case. Some of the earlier mathematical studies of probability were motivated by the desire to be more profitable when gambling. Today however the practical uses of probability theory go far beyond gambling and are used in many aspects of modern life. We believe that even adults can, in many cases, have a poor intuition regarding the effects of probability. These activities are designed to help pupils calculate but also get a 'feel' for the principles of probability.