How core skills transfer from primary school to high school and beyond help promote deep understanding and facility in developing and proving formal mathematical concepts.
PROBLEM: World Series Problem. Two evenly matched teams play a series of games in which the first team to win four games wins the series. What is the probability that the series will be decided in:
Use your ingenuity to adapt this high-school level activity into an activity that your own primary level students might undertake.
See the section 'Workshop 5.4 - Pascal's Triangle section toward the bottom of the TEACHER-WORKSHOPS page for more information.