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Data Detectives: Chance Outcomes

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Data Detectives: Chance Outcomes

Detective with magnifying glass looking at dice and graphs

🎲 Part 1: Understanding Chance

1. Circle the word that best describes each chance outcome:

Rolling a 7 on a dice numbered 1-6:

impossible

unlikely

likely

certain

Getting heads or tails when flipping a coin:

impossible

unlikely

likely

certain

2. Look at this data from rolling a dice 10 times:

Results: 1, 3, 2, 6, 1, 4, 2, 1, 5, 2

Which number came up most often? ________

Which number came up least often? ________

📊 Part 2: Reading Data Visualisations

3. This picture graph shows the results of spinning a spinner 12 times:

Red: 😊😊😊😊

Blue: 😊😊😊

Yellow: 😊😊😊😊😊

Each 😊 = 1 spin

How many times did the spinner land on yellow? ________

Which colour was most frequent? ________

Which colour was least frequent? ________

4. True or false? Tick the correct boxes:

Red came up more often than blue

Yellow was the most likely outcome in this experiment

Blue and red had the same frequency

🔍 Part 3: Detective Thinking

5. Your friend says: "I rolled a dice 8 times and got a 6 every time. The dice must be broken!"

Do you agree or disagree? Circle one:

Agree

Disagree

6. Explain your thinking:
7. Create your own tally chart! If you flipped a coin 10 times, record your predictions:
8. What do you notice about chance outcomes? Complete this sentence:

When we do chance experiments, the results can be _________________ but we can still describe what happened using data visualisations.

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