Which Team Will Win?
A practical experiment which will introduce students to tree diagrams, and help them to understand that outcomes may not be equally likely.
A practical experiment which will introduce students to tree diagrams, and help them to understand that outcomes may not be equally likely.
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, invites you to explore the different combinations of scores that you might get on these dart boards.
Try the Chinese version of this well-known game with a friend. Great to play in the garden or in the park.
Here we offer some suggestions about how you could take the Approaching Midnight game further.
Guess the Dominoes for child and adult. Work out which domino your partner has chosen by asking good questions.
Terry and Ali are playing a game with three balls. Is it fair that Terry wins when the middle ball is red?
Week 2
How well can you estimate angles? Playing this game could improve your skills.
Two bags contain different numbers of red and blue marbles. A marble is removed from one of the bags. The marble is blue. What is the probability that it was removed from bag A?
Use vectors to collect as many gems as you can and bring them safely home!