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AC9M4P02 Year 4 Mathematics

AC9M4P02 | Year 4 Mathematics: Probability

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor conduct repeated chance experiments to observe relationships between outcomes; identify and describe the variation in results
Strand
Probability
Substrand
Probability

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 4 Mathematics. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration playing games such as Noughts and Crosses or First to 20 and deciding if it makes a difference who goes first and whether you can use a particular strategy to increase your chances of winning
  • • Elaboration recording and ordering the outcomes of experiments using different physical or virtual random generators such as coins, dice and a variety of spinners, and discussing how AI systems use random generators to train algorithms
  • • Elaboration experimenting with tossing 2 coins at the same time, recording and commenting on the chance of outcomes after a number of tosses
  • • Elaboration shuffling a set of cards, drawing a card at random, and recording whether it was a spade, club, diamond or heart, picture card or numbered; repeating the experiment a number of times and discussing the results

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