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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
Average, Box plots, Describing distribution shape, Dot plots, Maximum, Median, Minimum, Percentages, Quartiles, Scatter plots, SkewnessKey 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
- Student worksheet
- Teacher instructions
- For each group: calculators, graph paper and a copy of the data set
