Roll These Dice

Roll two red dice and a green dice. Add the two numbers on the red dice and take away the number on the green. What are all the different possibilities that could come up?

Bipin's Choice

Bipin is in a game show and he has picked a red ball out of 10 balls. He wins a large sum of money, but can you use the information to decided what he should do next?

A Bit of a Dicey Problem

When you throw two regular, six-faced dice you have more chance of getting one particular result than any other. What result would that be? Why is this?

Trick or Treat

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Why do this problem?

This activity can be used as a nice straightforward introduction to probability.

Possible approach

This can be done practically with a large group with a box containing items to represent those in the challenge.

Key questions

Why have you decided on this?

Possible extension

Change the figures and suggest variations, for example when items are taken out they could then be replaced before the next selection.

Dice. Experimental probability. Equally likely outcomes. Interactivities. Tree diagrams. Probability. Theoretical probability.

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