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Playing Connect Three

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

In this game the winner is the first to complete a row of three. Are some squares easier to land on than others?

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Card Game (a Simple Version of Clock Patience)

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Four cards are shuffled and placed into two piles of two. Starting with the first pile of cards - turn a card over... You win if all your cards end up in the trays before you run out of cards in. . . .

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Flippin' Discs

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

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?

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The Lady or the Lions

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

The King showed the Princess a map of the maze and the Princess was allowed to decide which room she would wait in. She was not allowed to send a copy to her lover who would have to guess which path. . . .

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Misunderstanding Randomness

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Which of these ideas about randomness are actually correct?

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What Do You Know about Probability? (2)

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

What are the likelihoods of different events when you roll a dice?

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Which Spinners?

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

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

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Can't Find a Coin?

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

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

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What Do You Know about Probability? (1)

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

What is special about dice?
How can we use dice to explore probability?

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Cosy Corner

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

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?

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Master Minding

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Your partner chooses two beads and places them side by side behind a screen. What is the minimum number of guesses you would need to be sure of guessing the two beads and their positions?

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Probability Resources

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

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

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Two's Company

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

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

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Coin Tossing Games

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

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. . . .


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