5. Maths: Probability

Keystage: KS4

Subject: Maths

Resource type: Lesson

Skills: Problem Solving

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Curriculum Table

England: The national curriculum (England)Probability
Pupils should be taught to use a probability model to predict the outcomes of future experiments; understand that empirical unbiased samples tend towards theoretical probability distributions, with increasing sample size.
Scotland: National 5 MathematicsReasoning skills
Interpreting a situation where mathematics can be used and identifying a strategy; explaining a solution and relating it to context.
Wales: WJEC GCSE Mathematics specificationStatistics
Calculating theoretical probabilities based on equally likely outcomes; Estimating probabilities based on experimental evidence.

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