apt4Maths: PowerPoint Presentation (Lesson 2 of 6) on Probability - SIMPLE PROBABILITY

PowerPoint Presentation on Simple Probability (14 slides): Explains how to calculate simple probability, what is meant by ‘mutually exclusive’ and how to calculate the probability of something NOT happening.

This is 1 of a set of 6 PowerPoint Presentations on ‘Probability’. It has been written by a highly experienced teacher (of 25+ years), senior examiner and reviser for Maths and Stats examinations. It includes:

Lesson objectives
Step-by-step explanations of the subject matter
Examples to aid understanding
Questions to check understanding
Answers to questions, with explanations
Suggestions regarding which topic(s) should be moved on to next.

The complete set of 6 PowerPoint Presentations (92 slides, excluding Title Pages) can be purchased at a discounted price from www.apt-initiatives.com and covers the following topics relating to ‘Probability’:

01 Introduction – Terminology & Values (9 slides): Reviews probability terms and explains the range of probability values.
02 Simple Probability (14 slides): Explains how to calculate simple probability, what is meant by ‘mutually exclusive’ and how to calculate the probability of something NOT happening.
03 Expected Outcomes & Relative Frequency (14 slides): Explains how to calculate the number of times you expect something to occur, how to express relative frequency as an estimate for probability, and how to look out for bias.
04 Outcomes (19 slides): Explains how to document outcomes for single and multiple events using listing or two-way tables or possibility space diagrams, and how to summarise outcomes using frequency trees and two-way tables, as well as how to calculate the number of combinations or arrangements of objects in different situations.
05 Tree Diagrams, OR and AND (16 slides): Explains how to create and use tree diagrams, what is meant by ‘dependent’ and ‘independent’ events, and the formulae for the ‘OR’ and ‘AND’ rules.
06 Venn Diagrams, Set Notation & Conditional Probability (20 slides): Explains set notation, how to create and use Venn Diagrams and (for higher tier students) how to find conditional probability.

Note: Additional PowerPoint presentations are available to supplement the three GCSE Mathematics statistics packs (‘Collecting & Presenting Data’, ‘Analysing Data’ and ‘Probability’) to cover the additional topics required for GCSE Statistics, such as population pyramids, choropleth maps, weighted mean, geometric mean, time series (and moving averages), standard deviation, variance and distributions (including skewness coefficients), birth and death rates, base rates, price indexes, standardised rates, quality assurance and a variety of correlation coefficients.