AC9M7P01 Year 7 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

identify the sample space for single-stage events; assign probabilities to the outcomes of these events and predict relative frequencies for related events

Elaborations

• 1 discussing the meaning of probability terminology; for example, “probability”, “sample space”, “favourable outcome”, “trial”, “experiment” and “event”
• 2 listing sample spaces for games involving throwing a coin or a dice, spinners, or lucky dip
• 3 exploring how relative frequencies can be used to make predictions by estimating the probability of an event; for example, in natural language processing (NLP), predictive text algorithms use the relative frequency of words in a set of texts to predict the next word in a sentence
• 4 assigning the probability for throwing a \(6\) on a dice and using this to predict the number of times a \(6\) will occur when a dice is thrown multiple times

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