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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.

• Pin Drop Estimate the probability of a drawing pin landing point up from experimental data.
• 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.
• Plinko Probability A simulation of a Quincunx (Galton Board) which can be used to create the bell shaped curve of the normal distribution.

Here are some exam-style questions on this statement:

• "There are only crayons in a pencil case and the crayons are either orange, purple or brown." ... more
• "The following table shows the probabilities of winning certain prizes at a stall in Faulton Towers theme park. A prize is always given for every turn." ... more
• "During a demonstration for Year 10 pupils a biased coin in a computer simulation landed on heads 600 times." ... more
• "A bag contains balls that are red, blue, green or yellow." ... more
• "On a Tuesday at a theme park, a sample of 50 visitors was randomly selected as they were leaving the park. They were asked how many times that day they had been on a ride called The Serpent. This information is summarised in the following frequency table." ... more
• "A game at a fayre consists of a players throwing one dart at the board pictured below.

  

  The probability of hitting each region and the points scored for hitting that region is given in this table." ... more

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Here is an Advanced Starter on this statement:

• Biased Coin
  Use a biased coin to obtain a fair result 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.