What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can work out probabilities for equally likely outcomes
- I can list outcomes using a sample space diagram
- I can add probabilities of mutually exclusive events and use relative frequency
- I can use tree diagrams to find probabilities of combined events
- I can use Venn diagrams and set notation to find probabilities
- I can work out conditional probabilities
Practise this topic
2 resources🔤 Fill the Gaps
Fill the Gaps: Maths Vocabulary
A sentence explaining one of the unit’s key words, with gaps. Pick the right word for each gap from the words scattered round it: the right ones and plenty of wrong ones. A deck for every unit.
🧩 ConnectionsProbability
Match dice, spinners, counters, coins and experiments that give the same probability. Complement and counting traps from Standard; AND, OR and replacement on Hard.
These are the pages for Probability in the GCSE scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics, Higher tier (1MA1). Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.