Max Maths, Year 5, Work Book, Describing the occurrence of familiar events

The Max Maths Year 5 Workbook offers a practical exercise in understanding probability, aimed at describing the likelihood of various familiar events. Practice 2 focuses on discerning the chances of different outcomes when using spinners with numbered sections. For instance, students are asked to determine the probability of spinning an odd number, spinning a specific number like 1, or landing on a prime number. These tasks help students to categorize outcomes as impossible, unlikely, even, likely, or certain based on the visual representation of the spinner's sections.

In addition to spinner-based scenarios, the workbook also presents real-life events for students to evaluate probabilistically. These include the likelihood of drawing a diamond from a pack of cards, the Sun rising tomorrow, or the sequence of months in a year. More whimsical scenarios ask students to consider the chances of growing taller by the age of 30, being the next person to walk on the Moon, or shrinking to a height of two centimetres after school. The final task challenges students to come up with their own examples of events that would fit each probability category, thereby reinforcing their understanding of the concept of chance in everyday contexts.