Acknowledge students’ responses. To investigate your questions, you are all going to make
instructions for a “6-Flip Trip”. Right now, flip your coin 6 times and record your results on the
handout. Allow students time.
If a flip of heads means step forward one unit on the number line, and tails means step back
one unit, what locations on the number line will you visit? Where will you arrive on the number
line after your six flips? You can record this on your handout. Check students’ work.
Ready to go for a walk? You will use the flips you recorded as your instructions. Before we
go, imagine what you might observe when we all do this at once. What are you curious about?
Talk about that as we walk to our location.
When we’re done with our experiment we will come back to our classroom and investigate
some of the questions you have written on your handout.