A Tall Tale
What would a graph of the heights of Year 10 NZ girls look like?
What stories do sampling distributions tell?
A nationwide online survey for Year 5 - 13 students which provides real, relevant data and classroom activities to enhance statistical enquiry across the curriculum.
Level 5
Achievement Objectives
- Level 5
- S5-1 Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
- B considering sources of variation
- D using multiple displays, and re-categorising data to find patterns, variations, relationships, and trends in multivariate data sets
- E comparing sample distributions visually, using measures of centre, spread, and proportion
- S5-1 Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
Key Ideas
Comparisons, Population, Sample, Sample size, Sampling distributions, VariabilityKey Competencies
- Relating to others
- Share ideas
- Thinking
- Seek patterns and generalisations
- Using language, symbols and texts
- Interpret visual representations eg graphs/diagrams
Resources
- Student worksheet
- Teacher instructions
- Computer
- OHTs of pre-test graph
- OHTs of several cards of same size
