Tuesday, October 20, 2009

How likely is that....




Today during our math lesson we predicted the likelihood of some chance events. For example; how likely is it to rain today? how likely is it to get homework tonight? and how likely is it that we'll see a pig fly during recess??? Using the probability meter vocabulary; certain, extremely likely, 50/50 chance, unlikely, extremely unlikely and impossible we described different situations.


Later on we made a prediction as to how likely is it that thumbtacks land face down. Then we carried an experiment to test our prediction. calculated the probability and posted it on our probability meter.