Math Games

Year 8 - Statistics & Probability

Standard 8.SP.1.1 - Determine the probability of opposite and overlapping events.

Included Skills:

Chance
• Identify complementary events and use the sum of probabilities to solve problems
- identifying the complement of familiar events
- understanding that probabilities range between 0 to 1 and that calculating the probability of an event allows the probability of its complement to be found
• Describe events using language of 'at least', exclusive 'or' (A or B but not both), inclusive 'or' (A or B or both) and 'and'.
- posing 'and', 'or' and 'not' probability questions about objects or people
• Represent events in two-way tables and Venn diagrams and solve related problems
- using Venn diagrams and two-way tables to calculate probabilities for events, satisfying 'and', 'or' and 'not' conditions
- understanding that representing data in Venn diagrams or two-way tables facilitates the calculation of probabilities
- collecting data to answer the questions using Venn diagrams or two-way tables