AC9M4P01
Official content description
describe possible everyday events and the possible outcomes of chance experiments and order outcomes or events based on their likelihood of occurring; identify independent or dependent events
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What Year 4 Maths students should achieve
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- They recognise equivalent fractions and make connections between fraction and decimal notations.
- Students order events or the outcomes of chance experiments in terms of likelihood and identify whether events are independent or dependent.
- They use mathematical modelling to solve financial and other practical problems, formulating the problem using number sentences, solving the problem choosing efficient strategies and interpreting results in terms of the situation.
- They find unknown values in numerical equations involving addition and subtraction.
- Students use the properties of odd and even numbers.
- They choose rounding and estimation strategies to determine whether results of calculations are reasonable.
The Probability progression either side of AC9M4P01
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Taught before · Year 3
- AC9M3P01identify 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
- AC9M3P02conduct repeated chance experiments; identify and describe possible outcomes, record the results, recognise and discuss the variation
Builds towards · Year 5
- AC9M5P01list the possible outcomes of chance experiments involving equally likely outcomes and compare to those which are not equally likely
- AC9M5P02conduct repeated chance experiments including those with and without equally likely outcomes, observe and record the results; use frequency to compare outcomes and estimate their likelihoods
Other Year 4 Probability codes
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