In sixth form, I volunteered to be a classroom assistant for the lower years during some of my free periods. One of the lessons I assisted with was for year-sevens (eleven- and twelve-year-olds) who needed some additional support with maths. In one lesson, we were covering probability, and the teacher finished up with some revision.
Teacher: “What is the chance that a tossed coin will fall showing heads?”
Students: Chorusing “One in two!”
Teacher: “What is the chance of a dice rolling a four?”
Students: “One in six!”
The questions continued like this for a little while longer, until…
Teacher: “What’s the chance that [Other Teacher] will run into the classroom right now in a sarong and a rainbow wig?”
Students: Giggling and uncertain “Zero?!”
Right on cue, the other teacher burst into the classroom in the described outfit and chaos descended. I’m not sure if they ever did that again, but it definitely made probabilities memorable!
Yakety Sax about 1 year ago
From NotAlwaysRight:
In sixth form, I volunteered to be a classroom assistant for the lower years during some of my free periods. One of the lessons I assisted with was for year-sevens (eleven- and twelve-year-olds) who needed some additional support with maths. In one lesson, we were covering probability, and the teacher finished up with some revision.
Teacher: “What is the chance that a tossed coin will fall showing heads?”
Students: Chorusing “One in two!”
Teacher: “What is the chance of a dice rolling a four?”
Students: “One in six!”
The questions continued like this for a little while longer, until…
Teacher: “What’s the chance that [Other Teacher] will run into the classroom right now in a sarong and a rainbow wig?”
Students: Giggling and uncertain “Zero?!”
Right on cue, the other teacher burst into the classroom in the described outfit and chaos descended. I’m not sure if they ever did that again, but it definitely made probabilities memorable!
T... about 1 year ago
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