5th Grade Math- Week 4

At Washington, the students focused on Equally Likely Events. We discussed how events are equally likely if two or more possible outcomes of a given situation have the same chance of occurring or the same probability.

Students gave examples of experiments that are equally likely. Our class example was eight different colored chips were put in a bag. They were identical except for the color. What is the probability of drawing a green chip. It was 1/8, and there is the same chance of drawing any of the other colors.

We also started looking at the ideas of Theoretical Probability vs. Experimental Probability and the Law of Large Numbers.

At L & C began looking at the idea of Experimental Probability and working on proper notation. Next week we will begin with Equally Likely Events. At Washington we will begin the concept of Unequally Likely Events.