VC2M4P01
Parents start here
Your child is learning to use words like certain, likely and unlikely.
- Place five everyday events (e.g. 'the sun will rise tomorrow', 'it will snow in July', 'I'll flip heads') on a scale from impossible to certain
- Use 'likely', 'unlikely', 'certain', 'impossible', and 'even chance' correctly to describe different events
One skill from the map, ages 9–10 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in Mathematics, Level 4. The description text is © VCAA and not reproduced here — read the official wording at the VCAA site.
Official source: Victorian Curriculum F–10 V2.0 — Mathematics ↗ · content © VCAA (CC-BY-NC) · codes shown as reference labels only
Closest Australian Curriculum v9 codes
The national codes this Victorian code most closely corresponds to — ✓ marks codes where Victoria kept the national numbering; all correspondences are machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).
describe possible everyday events and the possible outcomes of chance experiments and order outcomes or events based on their likelihood of occurring; identify independent or dependent events
identify practical activities and everyday events involving chance; describe possible outcomes and events as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’ and identify some events as ‘certain’ or ‘impossible’ explaining reasoning
list the possible outcomes of chance experiments involving equally likely outcomes and compare to those which are not equally likely
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
3 other candidate matches — 1 medium, 2 low
medium confidence
low confidence
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Probability strand (Level 4):
VC2M4P02
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.