Talk:Primary Mathematics/Probability

This page had very little relevence to showing educators how to teach probability, and even less in explaining to parents how probability is (currently) taught. With the exception of the roll of a die, which is too lengthy, there is little reference to manipulatives, models, or even simple examples from the real world that children can understand and relate to (such as a series of coin tosses). Very simply, probability is not taught to the elementary grades with equations, at least not initially. This page needs to show and explain the various models actually used to teach probability to primary grade learners, such as tree diagrams and area diagrams. I have just finished a simple primer on this page that shows those two manipulatives in action and attempts to make connections to other skills students should be learning at this age. Leightwing 23:54, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm presenting a lecture like this to my child's 5th grade class soon.

I would like to add some, and more vivid examples.

p(x)
Rather than the 'pseudo-but-actualy-far-more-confusing' use of the shortening of probablity to "Pr" use the convention used in mathematics and statistics "p".

Don't create havoc later when someone is trying to teach algebra and the kid goes on and on about how "Pr" is probablity and not "P * r".

Confused.
'How do I do a tree diagram with the example of 6 books with 2 being red, 3 being blue and 1 being green? It is confusing and I would like it if Wikibooks could help me with this problem.'--94.168.30.176 (discuss) 16:47, 7 February 2012 (UTC)