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Bear Hugs 1

Bear Hugs

To give an awesome bear hug you need really long arms so that your arms get all the way around the person you are hugging.

Does the average student have arms long enough to give a bear with a circumference of 160cm a hug?

In this activity you will explore how long the average arm span is.

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

Key Ideas

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Key Competencies

  • Managing self
    • Seek understanding
  • Participating and Contributing
    • Build on prior knowledge
  • Relating to others
    • Communicate thinking
    • Interpet statistical information
  • Thinking
    • Investigating
    • Make predictions

Resources

Author

Joanne Woodward

Last revised

Anna Martin (February 2011)

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