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The slushy sludger: questions

The slushy sludger: questions

TLF ID L115

Use a vending machine to squirt coloured 'slushies' into ice-cream cones. Work out which 'sludge events' are possible and then choose a matching probability word.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • Enables students to investigate data and explore probability concepts.
  • Uses the probability words, ‘Yes’, ‘no’, and ‘maybe’ as possible answers for eight data-oriented questions.
  • Compares a predicted result against the actual outcome.
  • Requires students to fill dispensers to match a given criterion.
Year level

1

Topics Sampling (Statistics) Probability Likelihood
Learning area
  • Mathematics

Other details

Contributors
  • Author
  • Name: Maths Technologies Ltd
  • Organization: Maths Technologies Ltd
  • Description: Author
  • Contributor
  • Name: CWA New Media
  • Organization: CWA New Media
  • Description: Technical implementer
  • Address: NEW ZEALAND
  • URL: http://www.cwa.co.nz/
  • Name: Maths Technologies Ltd
  • Organization: Maths Technologies Ltd
  • Description: Author
  • Address: NEW ZEALAND
  • URL: http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2016, except where indicated under Acknowledgements. This material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia (CC BY-SA 3.0 AU) licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/.