8 Glasses per Day?

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?

This activity uses a question from the 2005 database, to view this data in data viewer you must select from the Census at School 2005 population.

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Level 4

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

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

Joanne Woodward

Anna Martin (February 2011)

Have you used 8 Glasses per Day? with your class?