Stage: 4 Challenge Level: 
Comparing Aces High with Five Dice : How many things can happen ? How likely are those things ?
Now comment on how those answers are similar and how they are different.
Comparing 10cm with Five Dice : How many things can happen ? How can we talk about the probability in each case ?
Experimental probability. Learning through exploration. Theoretical probability. Conditional probability. Real world. Tree diagrams. Equally likely outcomes. Maths in STEM. Combining probabilities. Probability density functions.
Published June 2008.
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