Mathematics 5 curriculum guide 2015 I table of contents acknowledgements

MATHEMATICS 5 CURRICULUM GUIDE 2015
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Resources/Notes
PROBABILITY
General Outcome: Use Experimental or Theoretical Probabilities to Represent and 
Solve Problems Involving Uncertainty.
Authorized Resource
Performance
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Ask students to toss a coin and record whether they get heads or 
tails. Repeat at least twenty times and record results in a chart. They 
discuss their findings, try flipping the coin another twenty times and 
discuss the results again.
(5SP3.4)
• 
Ask a student to turn on the classroom radio. Note whether the first 
voice heard (speaking or singing) is a female or male voice. Change 
to a different station and record the gender of the first voice you 
hear. After students have tried five stations, ask them to describe the 
probability of hearing a male voice on daytime radio.
(5SP3.4)
• 
Ask students to describe the 10 coloured erasers they would put in 
a pencil box so that the probability of selecting a red one is high but 
not certain.
(5SP4.4)
• 
Using a bag which contains 20 green cubes and 5 red cubes, ask a 
student, without looking, to remove one cube from the bag. Record 
the color, and return it to the bag. Repeat the experiment 20 times. 
Ask students to indicate the frequency with which a green cube was 
chosen. Ask them to describe, using the language supplied (less 
likely, equally likely, more likely), the likelihood that a green cube 
will be selected rather than a red cube.
(5SP4.4)
Math Focus 5 
Lesson 5: Solving Problems by 
Conducting Experiments
TR: pp. 35-38
SB: pp. 354-355
Lesson 6: Designing Spinners
TR: pp. 41-44
Spinners Blackline Masters
pp. 69-70
SB: p. 357
Curious Math
Did it Really Happen?
TR: pp. 39-40
SB: p. 356
Interview
• 
Ask students to describe an experiment where one outcome is equally 
likely to occur as another outcome.
(5SP4.3)
• 
Give students a paper bag containing 10 coloured tiles: five red, three 
blue, two yellow. Ask them to determine which probabilities they 
wish to determine. Ask them to design and conduct an experiment 
based on their decision.
(5PS4.2, 5PS4.3, 5PS4.4)

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