A probability modelling exercise using two dice. The original pair of birds will lay between 4 and 16 eggs (according to the dice outcome described), and each egg is then submitted to the chances of nature as it struggles to hatch, develop and reach adulthood. How many of your chicks will survive to become breeding adults themselves?
Experience has shown that this can easily absorb students for up to an hour, and talk about the task soon has other students asking to do it! You only need two dice and this sheet to play the game, and even if you have no dice you can still use the Random Number generator on your calculator.
At each stage you shade in the boxes in the grid to show success, and fill in an X where the egg/chick fails to thrive. Students become highly invested in looking out for their eggs and chicks, commonly giving them names and mourning their demise!
Good to gather collective experimental data at the end.
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Very good resource - used it with Y7 to recap probabilty and to talk about expectation given a large number of trials DaveB
TES ( & it's contributors) always seem to come up with something different & stimulating just when I need it. This has just become tomorrow's lesson. Thanks.
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