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Analysis tools

This activity will probably take at least two periods (100 minutes approx).

Students will be working with investigative questions they have posed previously (see activity on posing questions) or investigative questions they pose in this session for the given data set they are working with.  This particular activity is designed for using CensusAtSchool data.

Level 4

Achievement Objectives

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

Key Ideas

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Key Competencies

  • Managing self
    • Be self-motivated
    • Seek understanding
  • Thinking
    • Analysing
    • Discern if answers are reasonable
    • Exploring and using patterns and relationships in data
  • Using language, symbols and texts
    • Explore different representations
    • Interpret visual representations eg graphs/diagrams
    • Know, use and interpret specialised vocabulary

Resources

Author

Pip

Last revised

(September 2010)

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