Scatter it
How does height of students change with age?
What is the height of ten year old?
What is the height of a fourteen year old?
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 4-6
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
- S4-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- Level 6
- S6-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- C identifying and communicating features in context (trends, relationships between variables, and differences within and between distributions), using multiple displays
- S6-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
Key Ideas
Bivariate data, Relationships, Scatter plots, VariablesKey Competencies
- Managing self
- Rise to new challenges – using appropriate strategies
- Thinking
- Exploring and using patterns and relationships in data
- Using language, symbols and texts
- Interpret visual representations eg graphs/diagrams
- Using ICT as appropriate
