Engaging Probability Maths Games — ‘Fair or Unfair?’ Teaching Slides

Make probability concepts meaningful and engaging with these Probability Maths Games Fair or Unfair teaching slides! Designed to spark critical thinking and classroom discussion, these ready-to-use slides guide students through a variety of real-world and imaginative scenarios to determine whether a game is fair or unfair.

From analysing uneven spinners to evaluating coin toss outcomes and dice games, students will practise reasoning, apply probability knowledge and defend their thinking. Each scenario encourages discussion to deepen understanding. These probability maths games teaching slides are a low-prep, high-impact way to introduce fairness in games and build a strong foundation in probability concepts.

More Fair and Unfair Games Probability Activities

Supplement these teaching slides with additional activities that will deepen student thinking.  Here are two fair and unfair games probability activity ideas:

Create-Your-Own Game – In pairs or small groups, students design a simple game of chance using dice, spinners, cards or coins. They must clearly explain the rules and whether they believe the game is fair or unfair. Play the games to test students’ theories!

Classroom Discussion: Have a classroom discussion about well-known board games. Are these games fair? Why or why not? Is there a way a certain player can gain an unfair advantage, for example, by going first or gaining a certain asset? If so, how can the game be made more fair?

And make sure to check out the additional probability maths games linked below to continue to explore this topic with your students! 

Grab These Probability Fair Game Teaching Slides Today

These probability fair game teaching slides are available in both Google Slides and PowerPoint formats. To download them, click the drop-down arrow on the download button and choose the format that works best for your classroom. 

This resource was created by Kendall Britnell, a teacher and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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