Experimental probability

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

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

How is the length of time between the birth of an animal and the birth of its great great ... great grandparent distributed?

Have a go at this game which involves throwing two dice and adding their totals. Where should you place your counters to be more likely to win?

Play this dice game yourself. How could you make it fair?

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

Discs are flipped in the air. You win if all the faces show the same colour. What is the probability of winning?

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

Are these games fair? How can you tell?

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