begonia
May 8th, 2012, 09:21 AM
DD1 is in kindergarten and her homework last night was to flip a coin 8 times and graph the outcome. Heads v Tails, you know, good ol' 50/50 chances. For some people. For her, 7 heads, 1 tail :rofl:
Poor kid was actually quite frustrated at her results so we played again. That time, she got 6 tails and 2 heads. She was bothered but I did manage to show her that if she looked at ALL 16 of her flips (even though she could only graph the 1st 8) she got much closer to 50/50 with 9 heads and 7 tails.
I guess we just need to have 16 kids :wink:
Poor kid was actually quite frustrated at her results so we played again. That time, she got 6 tails and 2 heads. She was bothered but I did manage to show her that if she looked at ALL 16 of her flips (even though she could only graph the 1st 8) she got much closer to 50/50 with 9 heads and 7 tails.
I guess we just need to have 16 kids :wink: