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Can you invent your own games of chance? It should be reasonably simple, you will need to write down the rules for other people to follow.

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. An Experiment with Dice - Click on this link and complete the activity. This interactive game explores the idea of probability. The activity asks you to work out the most likely total score if you throw two dice together and add the scores. Create a tally sheet and record the results. Then use the interactive tool to graph your data.

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What you think will happen with Miranda and Hugh’s game

I think Hugh will win because he has thrown 3 sixes in a row.

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Look at the ‘who gives a toss’ results.  Who do you think tossed the coins and who do you think did not? Why do you think this? How do the representations help you to know who did and who didn’t toss a coin? Copy and paste their table results to your padlet.

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Tossing a coin is another way we can make sure that a choice is fair. But how can a team’s decision of heads or tails affect their chances of winning?

The chances of winning will be even because no one knows what the results will be.

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when you make the shuffle function on your music playlist it shuffles the songs randomly around. but is doesn't do that. that means the songs by the same singer will probably be played lots of times.

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Read through the paragraph ‘Fair’s, Fair’ - Find the topic sentence? And then add the supporting information to your Padlet

The topic sentence for the paragraph is 'Miranda thinks that the dice game is unfair.'

The supporting information is that Miranda thinks the game is unfair because Hugh might throw another six then he will win the game.

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Add some of your own examples of patterns to your padlet, too?

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Do you think you could describe a pattern to someone without showing them?

No you cannot because the person wouldn't understand the pattern without you showing them.

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How do the these illustrations help you to understand a pattern?

The picture helps because the skip counting makes the patterns easier to understand.

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2,4,6,8,9,12,15,18,
3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30

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This is a pattern of a fern with ferns in it.

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This is a pattern of feet tapping on the floor and it is repeating by going up and down.

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This is a square pattern and it has different colours on it.

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Patterns - what is a pattern? Can you add the pictures of the patterns from the text and describe them? Can you finish the maths patterns? How do the these illustrations help you to understand a pattern? Do you think you could describe a pattern to someone without showing them? Add some of your own examples of patterns to your padlet, too?

A pattern is something simple that repeats equally.

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Can you give some examples of ‘games of chance’?

Bingo, lottery,  and slot machines.

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What does ‘random’ mean?

Random means that the outcome is pure chance and cannot be predicted. There is an equal chance of each possible result.

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Check out the title page and images in the text.  What predictions can you make on what this text might be about?  What type of text is it? Fiction/non fiction?

I predict that this text will be about  people playing a board game with a dice.

The text is non fiction because it is real.

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Totally Random