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University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Who's the Winner? ActivityUniversity of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Who's the Winner? Activity
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University of Cambridge
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5th - 8th
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University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Who's the Winner?

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If two goals are scored in a hockey match between two equally-matched teams, what are the possible scores? This activity gives an opportunity to investigate probability in the context of sport, and is designed to be accessible to secondary maths students at Key Stage 3.

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experimental probability, probability

Additional Tags

cross-curricular math activity, millennium mathematics project, probability, statistics, and graphs

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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