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· to
download and familiarize students with board game
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- Download
the board game ‘Keepin’ it Fair for the Tortoise
and the Hare’. It is suggested that students save this
file to a hard drive for future use (File, Save As – and give the file a
unique name, e.g. Mary and Jane.doc).
As this unit of work will take some time to complete, students
will need to open this file to continue the game each time they work on
this unit. Students will
work in pairs at a computer.
They will have the board game open and the Internet open
concurrently. One student will
adopt the role of the ‘hare’ and the other student will adopt the role
of the ‘tortoise’. Students will
work through a range of interactive internet sites to determine when two
outcomes of an event have an equal chance. In the event of an identical outcome, both the hare and
the tortoise will move one space on the board game. If the hare wins, the hare moves 2
spaces forward on the board game.
If the tortoise wins, the tortoise moves 2 spaces forward on the
board game. Whichever player is
in front at the end of all activities, or whichever player passes the
finish line first is the overall winner.
- Explain the rules of the game to students. Explain the concept of the game to
students: the runners will start
together and both will have an equal chance of winning the race because
the variable of ‘ability’ has been removed.
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