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Ordering Chance Events

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Ordering Chance Events

Colourful dice and probability symbols

🎯 Part 1: Understanding Chance Words

1. Match each chance word to its meaning by drawing a line:
Impossible
Unlikely
Likely
Certain
Will definitely happen
Will never happen
Probably will happen
Probably won't happen
2. Circle the best chance word for each event:

a) The sun will rise tomorrow morning.

Impossible

Unlikely

Likely

Certain

b) You will grow wings and fly to school.

Impossible

Unlikely

Likely

Certain

c) It will rain sometime this year in Australia.

Impossible

Unlikely

Likely

Certain

🍬 Part 2: Skittles Bag Challenge

A bag contains: 8 red Skittles, 3 purple Skittles, 1 green Skittle, 5 orange Skittles, and 0 blue Skittles.

3. List all the possible colours you could pull from this bag:
4. Order these events from IMPOSSIBLE to CERTAIN by writing numbers 1-5 next to each event (1 = most impossible, 5 = most certain):

_____ Pulling out a red Skittle

_____ Pulling out a green Skittle

_____ Pulling out a blue Skittle

_____ Pulling out any Skittle

_____ Pulling out a purple Skittle

5. Which colour Skittle are you MOST likely to pull? Explain why.
6. Which colour Skittle are you LEAST likely to pull (but still possible)? Explain why.

🎲 Part 3: Create Your Own Chance Scenario

7. Design your own bag of coloured blocks. Fill in the table:

Red blocks: _____ Yellow blocks: _____ Blue blocks: _____ Green blocks: _____

8. Using your bag from question 7, write one event for each chance word:

Impossible: _________________________________________________

Unlikely: ___________________________________________________

Likely: _____________________________________________________

Certain: ____________________________________________________

9. Draw a line from IMPOSSIBLE to CERTAIN and mark where each of your events from question 8 would go:

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