Probability and Combination helps children work out the likelihood of specific events occurring, often expressing this as a fraction of all possible outcomes, while also developing the careful counting skills needed to list combinations, compare possibilities and avoid missing or repeating choices.
In this Probability and Combination pack, your child will practise:
- Working out the probability of a simple event as a fraction, such as picking one item from a bag or rolling a dice
- Finding probabilities after some items are added or taken away, or when the amounts are given as ratios, fractions or percentages
- Reading probabilities from a table, Venn diagram or chart
- Combining two or more events, such as a coin flip and a dice roll, and listing every possible outcome
- Comparing and judging whether probability statements are true or false
- Calculating the expected number of wins, losses or occurrences over many tries
- Using area to work out probability
- Counting how many combinations, pairings or arrangements are possible, and how many ways there are to make a given total
