Win Looks "Likely"!

In math we began studying "Chance Events."  We are going to be spending some time using the Probablility Chart (to the left) quite a bit the rest of the unit and periodically throughout the remainder of the school year.  Today we discussed how with the probability chart students can compare fractions, decimals, and percents.  

Specifically today, we spent our time learning how to determine the odds of "something" occurring.  Some "things" occur more often than others.  For example, the odds that a baby will be born a boy or girl we learned is "50-50" or 50%.  We talked about the odds of various natural disasters occurring.  We thought about the chances that someone can swim.

After we did that, we finalized the afternoon by taking a guess at the chance that we think the Green Bay Packers will beat the Houston Texans this coming Sunday.  We had a "VERY" serious talk about factors that might play into their decision, for example: back-up running backs and wide receivers, Aaron Rodgers getting sacked too much, the Texans have not lost yet, etc.

With all that in mind, students put the percent chance (they think) the Packers will win this coming Sunday on our probability meter.  Take a look for yourself.  

Do you agree with our results?  

I guess we will find out just how close our guesses are this coming Sunday.  We will let you know the results then.

"Go Pack Go!"