Use this handy assessment tool to check your students’ understanding of the concept of chance and their ability to identify outcomes of familiar events and describe them using language such as ‘will happen’, ‘will not happen’ or ‘might happen’.
Describes mathematical situations and methods using everyday and some mathematical language, actions, materials, diagrams and symbols
Supports conclusions by explaining or demonstrating how answers were obtained
Recognises and describes the element of chance in everyday events
Recognises and describes the element of chance in everyday events
Records and compares the results of chance experiments
Identify outcomes of familiar events involving chance and describe them using everyday language such as ‘will happen’, ‘won’t happen’ or ‘might happen’
Identify practical activities and everyday events that involve chance. Describe outcomes as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’ and identify some events as ‘certain’ or ‘impossible’
Identify practical activities and everyday events involving chance; describe possible outcomes and events as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’ and identify some events as ‘certain’ or ‘impossible’ explaining reasoning
Identify outcomes of familiar events involving Probability (Chance) and describe them using everyday language such as ‘will happen’, ‘won’t happen’ or ‘might happen’