median
don steward
mathematics teaching 10 ~ 16

Monday, 17 March 2014

throwing a six

looking initially at how many sixes you obtain when a dice is rolled 20 times

a ppt is here

"how many sixes do you think would be obtained normally?"
















class results can be amalgamated to compare a short run (one student, 20 throws) with a longer run: the number in the class lots of 20




then exploring simpler cases, theoretically
what is the probability of getting exactly
0 sixes?
1 six?
what is the probability of getting more than 1 six?








why are these the same?


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