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Year 7 & 8 Probability Ideas

Pip Arnold — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 02:05:01 +0000

Is probability really just about flipping coins, rolling dice and playing fun games?

Michelle and Grant looked at junior probability in high school and how important it is to build probability foundations for future success. Teachers trialed activities that start conversations about randomness, chance, unpredictability and risk.

Many of the ideas here could be adapted for year 7 & 8 students, especially the probability activities from slide 24 and vocabulary from slide 9.

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Making experiments awesome – Grant Ritchie & Michelle Dalrymple

Anne Patel — Fri, 17 May 2019 01:11:31 +0000

In 2015 Grant and Michelle aimed to make their Level 2 and Level 3 Statistics courses as AWESOME as possible.�� They tackled this challenge with lots of fun, learning through doing, and encouraging a positive collaborative classroom culture.�� Their workshop shared experiences teaching Level 2 & Level 3 Experiments and endeavored to discuss: good experiments to do in class, incorporating the research component and key teaching moments.�� They also bragged about their inaugural annual “Experiments Camp”.

Resources: Workshop powerpoint is . Please note marshmallows were used in this workshop – always give a health and safety briefing with marshmallows (and other edibles).

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Fun + Relationships + Curriculum = Awesome, Grant Ritchie & Michelle Dalrymple

Anne Patel — Thu, 16 May 2019 22:06:17 +0000

Michelle and Grant posed the question: Does building strong relationships in the classroom happen by chance?�� What can we do to foster the development of student-teacher and student-student relationships within our curriculum activities?�� Grant and Michelle shared statistical activities that they have used successfully in their classes, these involve engaging students in play and ensuring they enjoy learning about data, chance and distribution.

Resources: Our workshop powerpoint is��

Michele also writes a all about teaching Statistics.

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Probability – Planning to learn

Anne Patel — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 02:24:31 +0000

Grant Ritchie and Michelle Dalrymple asked teachers “is junior probability just about rolling dice and playing games at your school? Is it often left to the end of the year as a filler?�� During this workshop, Grant and Michelle demonstrated hands-on activities that have been chosen to deliberately develop key probability thinking in preparation for senior school.�� They discussed how they are working with their teachers to think about why they use particular probability tasks, what are the learning intentions, where does it fit into the bigger learning programme for that year and beyond?

Resources:��Our workshop powerpoint is��. Note – Anna’s modelling tool can now be found��. (Please note that this is the same workshop presented at CMA Statistics Teachers’ Day 2015)

Probability…the pathway to Year 13 from Year 9��
Abstract: ��This workshop focused on unpacking the key probability learning concepts at each curriculum level. ��The aim was to assist teachers in developing a pathway in probabilistic thinking that is appropriate at each level. ��There were opportunity for teachers to evaluate where their school is currently at, and to identify what sequential building blocks are needed for students. Teacher’s shared probability activities they have found worked well in their classes. Workshop attendees brought a copy of their school’s current probability progressions.
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Developing students’ probability thinking and probability literacy (Levels 3 – 5)
Resources:��Our workshop powerpoint is��.

This work is in line with Statistics Education research calling for the reconnection of the statistics and probability strands of curricula.

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C Introduction to mulitvariate data

Anne Patel — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:53:28 +0000

Michelle Dalrymple gave a NZAMT Plenary discussing in Maths and Stats classrooms.

With Grant Ritchie she presented a workshop “Making the call” up to Level 5
Resources:��Our workshop powerpoint is��.

Sampling variation just keeps turning up everywhere!
Abstract:��Sampling variation seems to be a tricky concept for students to grasp and it just keeps turning up in places they don’t expect it, such as simulations or probability distributions.�� Michelle shared activities and ideas she uses to help students understand sampling variation, including a focus on the sample-to-population inference progressions and sampling variation with data derived from a probability situation.
Resources:��Workshop powerpoint is��. Also see Michelle’s three part about this topic.

Use Statistical methods to make a formal inference, the end of the high school journey
Resources:��The powerpoint is .

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Junior Probability

Anne Patel — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:48:58 +0000

Is year 9 and 10 really just about flipping coins, rolling dice and playing fun games?�� Michelle and Grant looked at Junior Probability and how important it is to build Probability foundations for future success.�� Teachers trialed activities that start conversations about randomness, chance, unpredictability and risk.
Resources:��Our workshop powerpoint is��(��makes it look better!)
Some of the activities presented came from Gage & Spiegelhalter’s book, Teaching Probability (); Wonky Dice (skew dice) are available from��.

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