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‘Animal Game’ Sample from the ATM Probability Pack
Excel, although sometimes quite cumbersome can be used to produce some very interesting exploratory games.
Eight activities to help develop understanding of probability.
A pack containing practical hands-on activities, away from the usual dice and coin tossing experiments, that will help in developing an understanding of probability.
This pack contains activities that can be approached at many different levels, so that all learners, from primary children to sixth-formers, could benefit. An ‘unbreakable’ rule for each task is that there are NO wrong ways to play the games or vary the rules!
Animal Game
Probability Pack is an ATM publication. One of the games in the pack is the ‘Animal Game’.
Downloads for the Probability Pack - Animal Game
The four animals in the race are the Camel, who steadily plods around the course, so either moves 2 or 3 paces at a time; the Cat who is nosey and likes to look at the sights, so either sits still, 0 paces, or moves 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 paces; the Lion who is confident and either snoozes, 0 paces, or runs 5 paces; and the Horse who is rather scatty and so sometimes runs backwards, -1 pace, and sometimes forwards 6 paces.
Full-sized game board for the Animal Game
Download (free) the ‘Animal Game’ example from the Probability Pack
In this Excel simulation, the rules are:
Camel: If the score is even, move 2 paces. If the score is odd, move 3 paces.
Cat: Subtract 1 from the number shown on the die and move that number of paces.
Lion: If the score is even, stay still. If the score is odd, move 5 paces.
Horse: If the score is even, move 6 paces forward. If the score is odd, move 1 pace backwards.
Who do you think will win?
Which animal has the greatest probability of winning.
See if you are right by downloading and running this simulation.
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