{"id":780,"date":"2014-05-16T06:48:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T06:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2014-05-16T06:48:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T06:48:37","slug":"2a1-week-ending-16th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/2014\/05\/16\/2a1-week-ending-16th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"2A1 &#8211; week ending 16th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the class would be looking at probability and how this relates to Finance in betting and stocks &amp; shares. This will carry on to next week as well. We have already discussed how bookmakers take 90% of the income and that the odds are always stacked against you. Hopefully by carrying out a series of practical experiments the class will develop their appreciation of the futility of this. There are a number of lessons on the MyMaths website on probability, these can be found under Library \u2013 Data \u2013 Probability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the class would be looking at probability and how this relates to Finance in betting and stocks &amp; shares. This will carry on to next week as well. We have already discussed how bookmakers take 90% of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/2014\/05\/16\/2a1-week-ending-16th-may\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maths-class-2a1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/mathsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}