Leaving Certificate Maths: Probability Webinar 26.2.2026

ZOOM online

This four-week webinar on Thursday 26th february, 5th, 12th & 19th March is suitable for teachers of Leaving Certificate Higher Level Maths and will cover the following:
Week 1
• Fundamental Principle of Counting / Factorial
• Permutations / Combinations / Binomial Coefficients
• Probability Definition
• Sample Space
• Rules of Probability – AND/OR/NOT
• Exam Questions
Week 2
• Experimental Probability (Relative Frequency) / Expected Outcome
• One-by-One Vs All-at-once Methods
• Venn Diagrams / Mutually Exclusive
• Tree Diagrams
• Exam Questions
Week 3
• Conditional Probability
• Independent Events
• Bernoulli Trials
• Binomial Distribution
• Exam Questions
Week 4
• More Difficult Exam Questions

Learning Outcomes
The learning outcomes will be aligned with the learning outcomes of the LC Higher Maths Syllabus listed here:

• Decide whether an everyday event is likely or unlikely to occur
• Recognise that probability is a measure on a scale of 0-1 of how likely an event is to occur
• Use the language of probability to discuss events, including those with equally likely outcomes
• Estimate probabilities from experimental data
• Recognise that, if an experiment is repeated, there will be different outcomes and that increasing the number of times an experiment is repeated generally leads to a better estimated probability
• Associate the probability of an event with its long-run, relative frequency