20 MATH STORIES
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19. Tortoise & Hare Hop to the Pond (gr. 1-8): Hare challenges Tortoise to a rematch. Who’s going to win the hop-to-the-pond race? [probability; experimental probability; theoretical probability; data management]

NUMBER
1. Something odd
2. Who's the Big Bad Wolf?
3. To infinity & beyond
4. Add it up!
5. Smart multiplication
6. Smart division

PATTERN/ALGEBRA
7. Colourful patterns
8. Making 10 - stage 1
9. Making 10 - stage 2
10. Math trains
11. Math waves
12. Scary patio patterns

MEASUREMENT/GEOMETRY
13. Big party, small party
14. Wolf gets hurt
15. Do parallel lines meet?
16. Mirror, mirror
17. How big is a billion?
18. Elephants' big ears

DATA/PROBABILITY
19. Tortoise & hare rematch
20. How left-handed are you?

 

     
 

Will Hare lose a math race to Tortoise?

Hare challenges Tortoise to a rematch and discovers that it’s good probability thinking — and not good luck or good hopping — that wins the race.

Content: probability with two number cubes

39 pages