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Sociable Cards

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Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?

Snail Trails

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This is a game for two players. You will need some small-square grid paper, a die and two felt-tip pens or highlighters. Players take turns to roll the die, then move that number of squares in. . . .

Football World Cup Simulation

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A maths-based Football World Cup simulation for teachers and students to use.

Flippin' Discs

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Identical discs are flipped in the air. You win if all of the faces show the same colour. Can you calculate the probability of winning with n discs?

Two's Company

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7 balls are shaken in a container. You win if the two blue balls touch. What is the probability of winning?

Cosy Corner

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Six balls of various colours are randomly shaken into a trianglular arrangement. What is the probability of having at least one red in the corner?

Stop or Dare

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All you need for this game is a pack of cards. While you play the game, think about strategies that will increase your chances of winning.

Game of PIG - Sixes

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Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?

Lottery Simulator

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Use this animation to experiment with lotteries. Choose how many balls to match, how many are in the carousel, and how many draws to make at once.

Can't Find a Coin?

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Can you generate a set of random results? Can you fool the random simulator?

Odds and Evens

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Is this a fair game? How many ways are there of creating a fair game by adding odd and even numbers?

A simple spinner that is equally likely to land on Red or Black. Useful if tossing a coin, dropping it, and rummaging about on the floor have lost their appeal. Needs a modern browser; if IE then at. . . .

Misunderstanding Randomness

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Which of these ideas about randomness are actually correct?

Interactive Spinners

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This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.

Thank Your Lucky Stars

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A counter is placed in the bottom right hand corner of a grid. You toss a coin and move the star according to the following rules: ... What is the probability that you end up in the top left-hand. . . .

Experimenting with Probability

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This package contains environments that offer students the opportunity to move beyond an intuitive understanding of probability. The problems at the start will suit relative beginners to the topic;. . . .

What Does Random Look Like?

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Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.

Last One Standing

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Imagine a room full of people who keep flipping coins until they get a tail. Will anyone get six heads in a row?

Odds and Evens Made Fair

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In this follow-up to the problem Odds and Evens, we invite you to analyse a probability situation in order to find the general solution for a fair game.

Mathsland National Lottery

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Can you work out the probability of winning the Mathsland National Lottery? Try our simulator to test out your ideas.

Who's the Winner?

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When two closely matched teams play each other, what is the most likely result?

Same Number!

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If everyone in your class picked a number from 1 to 225, do you think any two people would pick the same number?

Coin Tossing Games

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You and I play a game involving successive throws of a fair coin. Suppose I pick HH and you pick TH. The coin is thrown repeatedly until we see either two heads in a row (I win) or a tail followed by. . . .

Taking Chances

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This article, for students and teachers, is mainly about probability, the mathematical way of looking at random chance and is a shorter version of Taking Chances Extended.

The Random World

Stage: 3, 4 and 5

Think that a coin toss is 50-50 heads or tails? Read on to appreciate the ever-changing and random nature of the world in which we live.

Win or Lose?

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A gambler bets half the money in his pocket on the toss of a coin, winning an equal amount for a head and losing his money if the result is a tail. After 2n plays he has won exactly n times. Has. . . .

Which Spinners?

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Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?

Taking Chances Extended

Stage: 4 and 5

This article, for students and teachers, is mainly about probability, the mathematical way of looking at random chance.

Introducing Distributions

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When five dice are rolled together which do you expect to see more often, no sixes or all sixes ?

Probability Resources

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support probability work at Key Stage 4.

Investigating Epidemics

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.

Epidemic Modelling

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

Use the computer to model an epidemic. Try out public health policies to control the spread of the epidemic, to minimise the number of sick days and deaths.

Magical Maze - 35 Activities

Stage: 4 and 5

Investigations and activities for you to enjoy on pattern in nature.

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