Maths, maths, maths!!

Do you think this picture is confusing? Well once you get it explained, it's not hard! But don't worry, Lucy is here to explain it to you!! Today for talent development I went with Katie to do maths. We did some 'guesstimating', oh whoops, I mean probability. Probability is all about working out the chances of something happening.  It goes like this. We used a box of Cadbury Favourites and we 'guesstimated' the chances of pulling out each type of chocolate.  First we had to work out how many chocolates we had in the box, (27) then we had to work out how many types of chocolates there were (there were 11 different types).  From this, we got a percentage of how likely it was to pull that chocolate out.  We all took turns to pull out a chocolate - we did this 50 times. We used the telly marks to say how many times that chocolate type was pulled out.  Then we added up the telly marks and worked out the percentage. To get the percentage we had to double the numbers because we did it 50 times, but we wanted to know what the percentage was. Like three plus three would be six percent. It was really fun!!  Cherry Ripe and Turkish Delight came out a lot more times than we thought it would.  Thank you for reading my blog (Mum and Jason!)