Describing probabilities

Describing probabilities

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This task is about probabilities written as fractions and described in words.

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Choose the description that best describes each of the probabilities.
a)
\(1 \over 9\)
 
 CertainImpossibleGood chancePoor chanceEven chance
b)
\(5 \over 10\)
 
 CertainImpossibleGood chancePoor chanceEven chance  
c)
\(9 \over 10\)
 
 CertainImpossibleGood chancePoor chanceEven chance
d)
\(0 \over 6\)
 
 CertainImpossibleGood chancePoor chanceEven chance
e)
\(50 \over 100\)
 
 CertainImpossibleGood chancePoor chanceEven chance
f)
\(8 \over 8\)
 
 CertainImpossibleGood chancePoor chanceEven chance
g)
\(67 \over 70\)
 
 CertainImpossibleGood chancePoor chanceEven chance
h) 0 CertainImpossibleGood chancePoor chanceEven chance
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with auto marking displayed to students).
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Probability
Keywords: 
probability, qualitative probability, matching, fractions
Description of task: 
Students match the descriptions: certain, impossible, good chance, poor chance, even chance to a set of probabilities shown as a fraction.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' understanding of linking likelihoods expressed as fractions with ones expressed in qualitative terms of outcomes for Probability.
 
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Interpreting statistical and chance situations, sets 4-5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
    Y8 (03/2001)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)		 Poor chance
Even chance
Good chance
Impossible
Even chance
Certain
Good chance
Impossible
8 correct – moderate
 
7 correct – easy
 
3-6 correct – very easy