Distance Learning with Te Awa
Chance and Probability
Te Awa have been learning about Chance and Probability during distance learning, and doing some fun investigations to explore what this means. The first thing we did was make some colour spinners together on a video call, and talk about the probability of our colours being landed on!
Luna has some surprising results as her highest probability was red with 4/8 and the most unlikely to come up was yellow with 1/8. ‘Strangely the winner was yellow, maybe it was because the hole in the cardboard wasn’t right in the middle, it was a bit towards the orange side so maybe that’s why it won - very strange!’ Luna
Next we did a coin flip investigation, to see what the probability of landing on heads and tails was and if we could make accurate predictions based on this.
After Tamiregnaw got the results of his first 10 coin flips, he was able to make some great predictions for his next set of 20 coin flips!
Bianca was able to describe the chance of landing heads and tails as an even chance or ½. Her predictions were close to her results after 10 coin flips and she then realised she could use this to help her with her next prediction for 20 coin flips!
Believe it or Not?
During distance learning, Te Awa has also been doing some interesting work on our ‘Believe it or Not?’ Inquiry.
Betty researched the Weta, an animal with some quite unbelievable facts!
‘A curious thing about Weta is that they can listen through their knees, and are older than most dinosaurs!’ Betty
