Armspans
Are the armspan lengths of 12-year-old boys and girls the same or different?
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 5-6
Achievement Objectives
- Level 5
- S5-1 Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
- B considering sources of variation
- C gathering and cleaning data
- D using multiple displays, and re-categorising data to find patterns, variations, relationships, and trends in multivariate data sets
- S5-1 Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
- Level 6
- S6-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- D making informal inferences about populations from sample data
- S6-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
Key Ideas
Box plots, Comparisons, Inference, Population, Sample, SamplingKey Competencies
- Participating and Contributing
- Contribute to a culture of inquiry and learning
- Thinking
- Deal with uncertainty and variation
- Investigating
- Make decisions
- Make predictions
- Seek patterns and generalisations
- Think critically
Resources
- Student worksheet
- Teacher instructions
- Computer
- OHTs
