apt4Stats: PowerPoint for GCSE Statistics on SIMPLE PROBABILITY (Lesson 2 of 7 on Probability)

PowerPoint Presentation on Simple Probability (14 slides): Explains how to calculate simple probability, what is meant by ‘mutually exclusive’ and how to calculate the probability of something NOT happening. It has been written by a highly experienced teacher (of 25+ years), senior examiner and reviser for Maths and Stats examinations. It includes:

Lesson objectives
Step-by-step explanations of the subject matter
Examples to aid understanding
Questions to check understanding
Answers to questions, with explanations
Suggestions regarding which topic(s) should be moved on to next.

It is 1 of a set of 7 PowerPoint Presentations on ‘Probability’ that APT Initiatives has published for GCSE Statistics. The content of this PowerPoint is also relevant to the ‘Statistics’ section of the GCSE Maths specifications and included in APT’s PowerPoints for GCSE Maths.

The full set of set of 7 PowerPoints for GCSE Statistics on ‘Probability’ (101 slides excluding Title Pages) covers the following topics:

01 Introduction – Terminology and Values (9 slides).
02 Simple Probability (14 slides).
03 Expected Outcomes and Relative Frequency (14 slides).
04 Outcomes (19 slides).
05 Tree Diagrams, OR and AND (16 slides).
06 Venn Diagrams, Set Notation and Conditional Probability (20 slides).
07 Probability Distributions (19 slides).

These PowerPoints are one of 4 sets of PowerPoint Presentations that APT Initiatives Ltd has published to support teachers and students of GCSE Statistics. Other sets concern:

Collecting Data
Representing Data
Analysing Data

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