Interpreting statistical and chance situations resources

Using pictures, students state the likelihood of items being selected from bags.

Students record all the different combinations of lunches that could be chosen from five possibilities.

Students decide which statement about a dot plot is incorrect and explain their reasoning.

Students record all the different combinations of sandwiches from two types of bread and three fillings.

Students show their understanding of probability by identifying the shapes most and least likely to be drawn from a bag.

In this practical task, students use pictures of meat and salad fillings to work out all possible combinations of sandwiches. An optional activity is to make actual sandwiches.

Students select from the words 'certain', 'likely', 'unlikely', and 'impossible' to show the probability of a spinner landing on a defined area.

Students recognise equal and different likelihoods when playing a game of chance.

Students cut out pictures and use them to show all the different possible combinations of two sets of objects.

Students select which graph matches a given statement.

Students use the statements 'impossible', 'unlikely', 'likely', and 'certain' to describe events.