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What Are the Chances?

5/20/2020

 
 Yesterday, your job was to look at this jar of marbles and tell me:
1. What do you notice?
2. What do you wonder?
3. If you closed your eyes and reached into the jar, which colour would you probably pick?
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Here's what some of you said: 
Ben - "I see 5 purple and 3 yellow balls. I wonder if they are candy? I think I would pull out a purple one because there are more"
Razeen - "purple because most of them are purple"
Tony - "if I reached in I would get more purple than yellow"
Subhan - "probably I'll get purple because it's the most"
Sukaina  - "purple because there are more purple than yellow"
Sara - "purple because there is more purple gum than yellow gum"
Hassan - "you would probably pull out purple because there are more"

Yes! You are all right! You would probably pull out a purple because there are more purple than yellow. 
In Grade One, we would use math words to explain it like this - you are more likely to pick purple and less likely to pick yellow.

Now, let's try a couple more ... 
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Question 1.   
​Which of these are you more likely to pick?
​Which are you less likely to pick?

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Question 2
Which colour(s) are you most likely to pick?
Less likely?
​If this was a spinner for a game, would it be a fair spinner?

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Question 3
Which colour(s) are you most likely to pick?
Less likely?


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