
Mathsland national lottery
Can you work out the probability of winning the Mathsland National Lottery?
Can you work out the probability of winning the Mathsland National Lottery?
If you have ten counters numbered 1 to 10, how many can you put into pairs that add to 10? Which ones do you have to leave out? Why?
Some people offer advice on how to win at games of chance, or how to influence probability in your favour. Can you decide whether advice is good or not?
Imagine a room full of people who keep flipping coins until they get a tail. Will anyone get six heads in a row?
Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?
Can you order the digits from 1-3 to make a number which is divisible by 3 so when the last digit is removed it becomes a 2-figure number divisible by 2, and so on?