Year 3 · Mathematics · Probability
AC9M3P01
identify practical activities and everyday events involving chance; describe possible outcomes and events as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’ and identify some events as ‘certain’ or ‘impossible’ explaining reasoning
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Taught alongside it
The rest of Probability in Year 3.
The same idea, year by year
Where AC9M3P01 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 3.
- Year 4AC9M4P01describe possible everyday events and the possible outcomes of chance experiments and order outcomes or events based on their likelihood of occurring; identify independent or dependent events
- Year 4AC9M4P02conduct repeated chance experiments to observe relationships between outcomes; identify and describe the variation in results
Planning against AC9M3P01?
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