Feedback from our Year 2 students has been extremely positive when they were asked ‘what they learnt about chance and probability’. Krish said he liked ‘sorting jellybeans, tally marks and asking questions. I liked writing, I liked answering questions and I liked the picture graph.’ Dominick ‘liked asking questions about data. I liked sorting jellybeans - most and least. I liked the tally marks.’ Remi and Norton both ‘liked answering the questions’, Remi also ‘liked sorting the events by counting’, whereas Norton also enjoyed the ‘tally marks’. Eleftheria ‘liked the sorting out’, but she also ‘liked writing statements about data and sorting the jellybeans - most and least, while doing the tally marks.’ While learning about chance and probability Martin ‘liked writing the sentences that were certain and impossible and when sorting the events into probability’. This year, in Year 3, we learnt about Chance and Data. First, we learnt about all the different kinds of graphs, including; pie
graphs, line graphs, bar graphs and picture graphs. Then we got to draw some graphs ourselves to show information about some of our favourite things. To get information for our graphs we asked everyone in the class to vote on something they liked. We asked the class for their favourite fruit, their favourite sport and their favourite country. We drew tallies to show the answers and then drew our graphs. When we learnt about Chance, we talked about words such as impossible, possible, likely, unlikely, certain and uncertain. We tossed coins and predicted whether heads or tails would come up the most. We also talked about the Chance of picking a particular colour marble out of a jar. Learning about Chance and Data was fun because we played fun games. It was exciting to try and predict what the most popular result would be when exploring different questions and problems. - Gurbir S, Adam S, Isla J and Arjun B To give students an authentic and engaging experience with Statistics and Data, the Year 4 students participated in
the 'The Potato Olympics.' Here each student selected a potato athlete to compete in various events, including shot put(ato), sprinting, curling, equestrian, spinning, and gymnastics. Throughout the games, students gathered a wide range of data, such as time, weight, length, and points scored. They used this data to create graphs, interpret trends, and draw meaningful conclusions. The Olympics concluded with a closing ceremony, where potato athletes received medals before being humorously 'sacrificed' and transformed into hot chips, adding a fun twist to the learning experience. In Year 5, Jerusha ‘liked how we learnt about all the different types of graphs such as dot plots, line graph and side by side graphs’. Tania also ‘enjoyed making side by side graphs’, while Sophia enjoyed ‘learning about new graphs such as dot plots and line graphs. Trinity ‘liked gathering the information and putting it on a graph’ and Jonah ‘liked seeing the outcomes of chance in the data that we collected’.
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