My 5/6 students have been given a design & engineering project in Math to create a probability game for our upcoming class Probability Carnival.
The goal presented to the students was to design a game that gives everyone equal chance to win.
The students have researched what kinds of games are played at carnivals and used their imagination to create a probability game that multiple players could enjoy playing.
One of our students even came up with a creative game to help teach us the concept of probability called ‘heads & tails’ (for instructions & rules on how to play this game, check my freebies page on the 30th of September)
To complete this activity the students have had to actively participate in the design & engineering process by defining their goals, brainstorming possible solutions, sketching blueprints and creating prototypes of their games to test and improve on their designs for our carnival.
We are all looking forward to inviting our parents and families in to join us for our in-class ‘Probability Carnival’ in the last week of school. In addition, the students have applied their understandings of probability in order to test their prototypes of their design by collect real-life data of the outcomes of their games to analyse just how ‘fair’ their game is.
The students practiced calculating the mean, median and mode of the data collected, with some students even making further numerical connections by representing the chance or likelihood of an event occurring by converting their results into fractions and percentages –what a fantastic segway into learning decimals.
