5th Grade Math- Week 3

Today at WA we had a short class because of conference week and specialist scheduling changes. We started looking at the concept of Equally Likely Events. Students were given the scenario:

"Ricardo put 8 chips, each of a different color, in a bag. He shook the bag, pulled out a chip and recorded the color. He always put the chip back in the bag before repeating the experiment. Ricardo performed the experiment 40 times."

Students then had to predict how often they believed the green chip would get chosen. Then we set up the experiment and students created the same scenario using chips in a bag. First they had to predict how many times they thought each color would be chosen. Then they recorded their results after doing 40 trials of the experiment.

I do not have Lewis and Clark 5th grade math this week due to conferences, but will work on this lesson next week!

They needed to put their answers in proper Experimental Probability notation, Ex. P(red)= 4/40. That was the end of the time for our class period. Next week we will record how many green chips were drawn from each group. Then we will discuss way these events are Equally Likely to happen.