Spinner for a board game

Spinner for a board game

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources

 
Aisha is shading in a spinner like the one above, for a board game. She wants to give these chances of scoring:
  
Lose a turn \(1 \over 8\) Shaded
Double your score \(1 \over 4\) Shaded
Treble your score \(1 \over 8\) Shaded
Take your score as it is What's left Not shaded
 
Shade in the spinner to show these chances.

 

Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil, colouring pencils or felt pens, and paper.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Probability
Keywords: 
probability, equivalent fractions, fractions
Description of task: 
Students show probabilities by shading a spinner.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' understanding of likelihoods written as fractions.
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 (10/1996)

Y9 (10/1996)
1 mark
(for each correct set of shading as shown)		 moderate easy