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8 Glasses per Day?

Kotahi kapu wai māori

Do you drink 8 glasses of water per day? This is the recommended number of glasses of water we should drink each day.

Do New Zealand students drink water regularly? Can you predict what a graph of a sample of students will look like?

Level 4

Achievement Objectives

  • Level 4
    • S4-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • A determining appropriate variables and data collection methods
      • B gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category, measurement, and time-series data to detect patterns, variations, relationships, and trends
      • C comparing distributions visually
      • D communicating findings, using appropriate displays

Key Ideas

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Key Competencies

  • Managing self
    • Reflect
  • Participating and Contributing
    • Build on prior knowledge
  • Relating to others
    • Listen actively
  • Thinking
    • Co-construct knowledge
    • Select appropriate methods
  • Using language, symbols and texts
    • Interpret statistical information
    • Interpret visual representations eg graphs/diagrams

Resources

Author

Joanne Woodward

Last revised

Anna Martin (June 2008)

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