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Tally Charts for Chance

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Tally Charts for Chance

Coin flipping and tally chart illustration

🪙 Part 1: Understanding Tally Charts

1. How many tally marks represent the number 8?

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2. Sarah flipped a coin 15 times. She got heads 9 times and tails 6 times. Which tally chart is correct?

Heads: |||| |||| Tails: |||| |

Heads: |||| || Tails: |||| ||||

Heads: |||| ||| Tails: |||| ||

3. What does a tally chart help us do? (Check all that apply)

Count outcomes easily

See which outcome happened most

Predict exactly what will happen next

Organise our data

4. True or False: In chance events, we always get exactly equal results.

True

False

📊 Part 2: Creating Your Own Tally Chart

5. Complete this tally chart for rolling a dice. Fill in the missing tally marks:

Dice Results (20 rolls):

Number 1: |||| (4 times) - Tally marks: _____________

Number 2: 3 times - Tally marks: _____________

Number 3: |||| | (6 times) - Tally marks: _____________

Number 4: 2 times - Tally marks: _____________

Number 5: |||| (5 times) - Tally marks: _____________

6. Look at this coin flip experiment data and create a tally chart:

Results: H, T, H, H, T, T, H, T, H, H, T, H

7. Based on your tally chart from question 6:

a) How many times did heads appear? ______

b) How many times did tails appear? ______

c) Which outcome happened more often? ___________

🤔 Part 3: Thinking About Chance

8. Explain why we might get different results when we flip a coin 10 times compared to our classmates:
9. Design your own chance experiment using a spinner with 4 equal sections (red, blue, green, yellow). If you spun it 12 times, create a possible tally chart showing realistic results:
10. What is one important thing you learned about using tally charts for chance events?

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