Mathematics 5 curriculum guide 2015 I table of contents acknowledgements

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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
Journal
• Ask students to write a journal entry outlining events in their 
everyday lives that are impossible, possible and certain.
(5SP3.1)
Performance
• Students could be given sticky notes on which to write their own 
probability events and place them on the appropriate surface in the 
room labelled 
Possible, Impossible,
and 
Certain.
When all events are 
posted, students can share their events and the reasoning for their 
placement. A Gallery Walk will allow students to consider and 
discuss a wider variety of ideas.
(5SP3.1)
Paper and Pencil 
• Ask students to create a three door foldable with outside flaps which 
read: 
 Impossible, Possible,
and 
Certain
. Ask students to discuss, 
with their shoulder partners, events which would fit each of these 
descriptors. Students write and illustrate several of their favourites 
underneath the appropriate flap of their foldable.
(5SP3.1)
• Provide students with four copies of this graphic. 
Ask them to colour the blocks so that with each selection of a single 
block, it is: 
(i) equally likely to draw a red block as a green block.
(ii) more likely to pull a yellow block than a non-green block.
(iii) less likely to get a blue block than any other colour block.
(iv) less likely to draw a yellow one than a non-yellow one.
(5SP3.1)
Math Focus 5
Getting Started: Predicting the 
Results of an Experiment
Teacher Resource (TR): pp. 8-11
Student Book (SB): pp. 336-337
Lesson 1: Probability Lines
TR: pp. 12-15
SB: pp. 338-339