It was recently reported that an average New Zealand child guzzles almost 6kg of sugar a year in sweetened drinks. Do you think this is true?

Focus: Data manipulation and working with averages

Level 4-5

• Teacher’s Notes
• Students’ Worksheet (PDF)
• Students’ Worksheet (DOC)

Level 5+

• Teacher’s Notes
• Students’ Worksheet (PDF)
• Students’ Worksheet (DOC)

Additional Support

• Teacher Support Sheet

Skills Based Activity: Which Average

• Teacher’s Notes
• Students’ Worksheet

Further documents to be added as they become available. These will be updated as necessary.

Sample Data

For more daring and advanced classes, we invite you to retrieve your own random sample using the CensusAtSchool New Zealand 2005 random sampler. Note that values from the random sampler have not been cleaned, so be prepared to handle unusual data.