Challenge Question
What is the probability of picking a red counter from a bag if you know the probability of not picking it is 0.65?
Learning Targets
Beginning
To be able to calculate the probability of outcomes of single events and understand that the probability scale runs from 0 to 1.
To be able to calculate the probability of an event happening when you know the probability that the event doesn’t happen and knowing when you cannot use this rule.
Mastering
To be able to calculate all the outcomes of two independent events (such as tossing a coin & throwing a dice) and calculate probabilities from lists or tables
Resources
Starter
Start the lesson by watching this video and then Introduction to Probability and then work through the questions below.
Beginning
Simple probability examples:
Stick on Maths - Probability (open in Keynote)
Stick on Maths - Probabilities add to 1 (open in Keynote)
Developing
